{"id":40852,"date":"2017-02-24T03:09:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=40852"},"modified":"2017-02-24T03:09:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:39:55","slug":"himachal-guv-cm-felicitate-people-eve-shivratri-pti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=40852","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Guv, CM felicitate people on eve of Shivratri &#8211; PTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Himachal Pradesh Governor Acharya Devvrat and Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh have felicitated the people on the occasion of Shivratri.<br \/>\nThe Governor said it was one of the most important festivals celebrated in the state as Himachal was considered as &#8220;Abode of Gods&#8221;.<span class=\"p-content\"><br \/>\nHe hoped that the auspicious occasion brings peace and happiness into the lives of people.<br \/>\nVirbhadra Singh said that the people of the state had been celebrating Shivratri with traditional fervor and gaiety since the time immemorial.<br \/>\nHimachal Pradesh was known as abode of Lord Shiva and Shivratri festivals celebrated with devotion and religious fervor at various places, he said hoping that it would go a long way in strengthening the bonds of brotherhood.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the famous week long International Mahashivratri festival would commence at Mandi tomorrow.<br \/>\nThe festival would be inaugurated by chief minister while governor would be the chief guest at the closing function.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himachal Pradesh Governor Acharya Devvrat and Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh have felicitated the people on the occasion of Shivratri. The Governor said it was one of the most important festivals celebrated in the state as Himachal was considered as &#8220;Abode of Gods&#8221;. He hoped that the auspicious occasion brings peace and happiness into the lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}