{"id":7647,"date":"2009-04-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/19\/a-day-of-silence\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T12:00:00","slug":"a-day-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/19\/a-day-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day Of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Opinion\/Columnists\/Imagine-a-day-of-silence-in-the-politicians-life\/articleshow\/4419223.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">INDIA, March 26, 2006: Nyepi, the Balinese day of silence, is a national holiday. Its roots are the practice of mauna, Hinduism&#8217;s contemplative silence performed for spiritual purposes. Since Hinduism went from India to Indonesia, the concept of Nyepi travelled the same route. A spiritual The largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia, declares a national holiday each year &#8212; this year, on March 26 &#8212; to mark Hindu-majority Bali&#8217;s day of silence, Hari Raya Nyepi Tahun Baru in full. <\/p>\n<p>The father of modern India gave his voice a day off every week. Mahatma Gandhi would keep mauna every Monday. If he had a meeting he could not avoid on a Monday, he would write down his answers on chits of paper and pass them on.  <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>timesofindia.indiatimes.com INDIA, March 26, 2006: Nyepi, the Balinese day of silence, is a national holiday. Its roots are the practice,&#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-7647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647","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=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}