{"id":11426,"date":"2012-11-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/11\/04\/hindu-festival-dashain-brings-nepalese-together-in-hornsby\/"},"modified":"2012-11-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-festival-dashain-brings-nepalese-together-in-hornsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/11\/04\/hindu-festival-dashain-brings-nepalese-together-in-hornsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Festival Dashain Brings Nepalese Together In Hornsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hornsby-advocate.whereilive.com.au\/news\/story\/festival-brings-nepalese-together-in-hornsby\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KATHMANDU, NEPAL, November 2, 2012 (Hornsby Advocate): Kathmandu was a ghost town last Wednesday. &#8220;The streets would be all empty; everyone&#8217;s gone back to their villages,&#8221; said Mitra Pariyar, who marked Dashain, Nepal&#8217;s holiest Hindu festival, with his family in Hornsby. More than 100 local Nepalese families did likewise.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-day festival celebrates the mythological victory of good over evil and the triumph of the goddess Durga over the demon Mahishasura. Traditionally, Dashain is marked by visiting older relatives for a meal and a blessing on the 10th and most important day, which was last Wednesday. &#8220;This is like Christmas for us,&#8221; Mr. Pariyar said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about reuniting and re-establishing the kinship ties.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, November 2, 2012 (Hornsby Advocate): Kathmandu was a ghost town last Wednesday. &#8220;The streets would be all,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}