{"id":229635,"date":"2021-03-29T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/03\/29\/holi-celebrated-amid-covid-restrictions-in-nagaland\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T12:25:12","slug":"holi-celebrated-amid-covid-restrictions-in-nagaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/29\/holi-celebrated-amid-covid-restrictions-in-nagaland\/","title":{"rendered":"Holi celebrated amid Covid restrictions in Nagaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2021_3$large_dsios754744.gif><\/p>\n<p>Along with other parts of the country, Holi, the popular festival of colours, was celebrated across the State in a much more muted fashion, as large gatherings were not allowed.<\/p>\n<p>In the Stat&rsquo;s commercial hub, most of the shops owned by non-Nagas remained shut on the occasion, while many people were seen drenched totally in colours in many colonies.<\/p>\n<p>Both young and old, men and women were seen smearing colours at each other with abir (colour powder), coloured water,&nbsp; pichkari (water guns), water balloons filled with coloured water, etc.<\/p>\n<p>However, unlike in the previous years, the usual public enthusiasm witnessed during Holi celebration was somewhat missing this year due to COVID-19 pandemic, for which there are restrictions on huge gatherings too, a resident of West Yard colony said.<\/p>\n<p>Symbolising the triumph of good over evil, the festival of Holi marks the end of winter season and arrival of spring.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holi celebrated amid Covid restrictions in Nagaland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}