{"id":41511,"date":"2017-02-25T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41511"},"modified":"2017-02-25T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:37:44","slug":"maha-shiva-raatri-observed-cove-john-ashram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41511","title":{"rendered":"Maha Shiva Raatri observed at Cove and John Ashram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Hindus across the world observed Maha Shiva Raatri yesterday, hundreds of devotees attended the Cove and John Ashram for worship.<br \/>\nAmong the special invitees were President David Granger, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, his wife Sita Nagamootoo and officials from<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_411770\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"iwmp-single\" href=\"http:\/\/s2.stabroeknews.com\/images\/2017\/02\/20170225Img-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-411770\" src=\"http:\/\/s1.stabroeknews.com\/images\/2017\/02\/20170225Img-2-375x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swami Shivashankarananda hands over a gift of three religious books to President David Granger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_411769\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"iwmp-single\" href=\"http:\/\/s2.stabroeknews.com\/images\/2017\/02\/20170225Img-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-411769\" src=\"http:\/\/s2.stabroeknews.com\/images\/2017\/02\/20170225Img-4-375x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In queue: Devotees in line to offer prayers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>the Indian High Commission.<br \/>\nMaha Shiva Raatri translates to night of Shiva (one of Hinduism\u2019s five major forms of god) and was observed at the Ashram throughout yesterday from 6 am.<br \/>\nPrayers were chanted and the devotees were also fed with a variety of sweetmeats and seven curries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Hindus across the world observed Maha Shiva Raatri yesterday, hundreds of devotees attended the Cove and John Ashram for worship. Among the special invitees were President David Granger, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, his wife Sita Nagamootoo and officials from Swami Shivashankarananda hands over a gift of three religious books to President David Granger. In [&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":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511"}],"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=41511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}