{"id":15501,"date":"2017-05-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/05\/01\/magnificent-rato-machhindranath-chariot-procession-kicks-off\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:00:00","slug":"magnificent-rato-machhindranath-chariot-procession-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/05\/01\/magnificent-rato-machhindranath-chariot-procession-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent Rato Machhindranath Chariot Procession Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kathmandupost.ekantipur.com\/news\/2017-04-30\/glorious-rato-machhindranath-chariot-procession-kicks-off.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KATHMANDU, NEPAL, April 30, 2017 (Kathmandu Post): While the country witnessed many political turn of events on Sunday, the centuries-old religious tradition of chariot procession dedicated to Rato Machhindranath commenced in Lalitpur on Sunday. The chariot procession that began from Pulchok in Lalitpur will conclude after a month when the chariot crosses the Bungamati River in Lalitpur. Another festival called Bhoto Jatra will be held on the day of its conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The festival saw the hundreds of jovial participants who enthusiastically pulled the chariot made of a large wooden edifice of about 65 ft. in height and 15 ft. in diameter&#8211;upholding the culture and tradition. The chariot houses various reincarnations of Rato Machhindranath, also known as Rain God, and other Hindu Deities.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent chariot and festival photos at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, April 30, 2017 (Kathmandu Post): While the country witnessed many political turn of events on Sunday, the,&#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-15501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501","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=15501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}