{"id":112517,"date":"2021-03-10T17:04:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112517"},"modified":"2021-03-10T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:04:39","slug":"maha-sivarathri-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/10\/maha-sivarathri-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Maha Sivarathri Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I take pleasure in greeting all those celebrating the\nMaha Sivarathri Festival in Sri Lanka and World over a blessed day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hindu devotees in Sri Lanka have a long tradition of\nliving in harmony with all ethnic groups. Devotees of the Hindu faith will fast\non the day of the festival as they believe that spiritual liberation will\nmanifest through the fast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They believe that fasting and engaging in holy rituals\nwill lead to enriching their spiritual lives. They believe that observing a\npure and holy fast will bless them with the spiritual strength of God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I trust that the pure and holy fast of the Hindu\ndevotees world over will be blessed by Lord Shiva and that all that is good and\npure will come to pass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May all the hopes of a prosperous future be fulfilled\nby the light of the lamps lit on the day of Maha Shivarathri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May Maha Shivarathri be a meaningful and joyous day\nfor all those celebrating in Sri Lanka and around the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister I take pleasure in greeting all those celebrating the Maha Sivarathri Festival in Sri Lanka and World over a blessed day. Hindu devotees in Sri Lanka have a long tradition of living in harmony with all ethnic groups. Devotees of the Hindu faith will fast on the day of the festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mahinda-rajapaksa","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}