{"id":334525,"date":"2021-11-10T00:07:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T05:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=334525"},"modified":"2021-11-10T04:56:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T10:26:59","slug":"president-kovind-has-sent-his-greetings-to-fellow-citizens-on-the-eve-of-chhath-puja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-has-sent-his-greetings-to-fellow-citizens-on-the-eve-of-chhath-puja\/","title":{"rendered":"President of India greets on the eve of Chhath Puja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-334553\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/l-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/11\/l-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/11\/l-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/11\/l-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/11\/l-1-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/11\/l-1-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President\u00a0 Ram Nath Kovind has sent his greetings to fellow citizens on the eve of Chhath Puja. In a message, the President has said, \u201cOn the occasion of Chhath Puja, I extend my warm greetings and best wishes to all our fellow citizens living in India and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Chhath Puja is one of the oldest festivals to be celebrated in the country. Its significance lies in offering \u2018Arghya\u2019 to the setting Sun. Devotees, after observing rigorous fast during the day, take holy bath in the waters of rivers and ponds in culmination of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>This festival is a unique expression of relations we share with Sun God and the nature. May this festival strengthen our eternal relationship with nature that help us to protect our environment\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0 Ram Nath Kovind has sent his greetings to fellow citizens on the eve of Chhath Puja. In a message, the President has said, \u201cOn the occasion of Chhath Puja, I extend my warm greetings and best wishes to all our fellow citizens living in India and abroad. Chhath Puja is one of the oldest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":334526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[14717,14718,1451,14719],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334554,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334525\/revisions\/334554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/334526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}