{"id":237677,"date":"2021-11-07T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/11\/07\/lsu-organises-stone-pulling-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2021-11-07T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:54:01","slug":"lsu-organises-stone-pulling-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/11\/07\/lsu-organises-stone-pulling-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU organises stone pulling ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2021_11$large_LSU_organises.jpg><\/p>\n<p>The Lazami Students Union (LSU) held a traditional stone pulling ceremony on November 6 to mark its 75th Platinum Jubilee celebration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Head GB of Lazami, L. Saluvi Futhena spoke on the significance of the stone pulling tradition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said stone pulling was an age old tradition practiced by the forefathers since time immemorial and is practice till now but things have changed a lot with the coming of Christianity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pulling the stone is not an ordinary task but all customs and traditions are followed. Women folks do participate in the ceremony by carrying rice beer and offering the drinks for the men folk but it is a taboo for women to touch the stone or even the rope used for pulling the stone, he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lazami Students Union president, Khuvishe Swu thanked the pioneers for their dedication and hard works.<\/p>\n<p>Lazami students Union 75 Platinum Jubilee member, convenor souvenir committee and president Lazami Welfare Kohima, Ngukato Tsuipu said the Union is celebrating its 75 years under the theme &ldquo;75th Strides and Beyond&rdquo; where the main event will take place in the last week of December 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LSU organises stone pulling ceremony<\/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-237677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237677","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=237677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}