{"id":597,"date":"2025-09-04T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gryoungscholarsmagazine.org\/?p=597"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:00:18","slug":"holi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Holi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holi<br \/>\nIn Hinduism, Holi is also known as Holaka or Phagwa. It is a festival celebrated every year on the day after the full moon in the Phalguna month of Hindu which is equivalent to early March. It is a gathering which celebrates spring, honor the different events in Hindu mythology and a time of ignoring social norms and become involved in merrymaking.<br \/>\nHoli is almost certainly the least religious of Hindu holidays. In celebration of Holi, Hindus attend an open-air fire used as part of a celebration, spray colored powders and water to their family and friends and would normally go a bit wild in the streets.<br \/>\nThe center of the ritual in Holi celebration is the throwing and covering of colored water and powders on friends and family, which has a name commonly called &#8220;Festival of Colors.&#8221; The ritual is considered to come from the above story of Krishna and Radha as well as on Krishna&#8217;s playful showering of water to the maids and above all, it celebrates the coming of spring with all its beautiful colors and bright life.<br \/>\nB. Shaikh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holi In Hinduism, Holi is also known as Holaka or Phagwa. It is a festival celebrated every year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}