{"id":103710,"date":"2017-08-13T18:25:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T12:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=103710"},"modified":"2017-08-13T18:25:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T12:55:55","slug":"janmashtami-krishnas-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/janmashtami-krishnas-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Its Janmashtami-krishnas birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Devotees of Lord Krishna observe a ritualistic fast during his birth anniversary. Devotees eat only a single meal a day before Janmashtami. On the fasting day, devotees take a Sankalpa to observe a day long fast and to break it on the next day when the Ashtami Tithi is over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They perform the Krishna Abhishekam, with milk, ghee and water, and proceed to offer &#8216;bhog&#8217; to the God. Through the day of fasting no grains are consumed, the devotees take a meal containing fruits and water, called &#8216;Phalaram&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year Janmashtami would be celebrated on 14th August. Janmashtami marks the birth of Lord Krishna. It is said that Lord Krishna was born at midnight on the &#8216;eighth day&#8217; or the &#8216;Ashtami&#8217; of the holy month, Shravana, according to the Hindu Lunar calendar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The legend behind Lord Krishna&#8217;s birth, and his triumph over enemies, makes for one of Hindu folklore&#8217;s most loved tales, and is recited amongst the devotees with much fervor on Janmashtami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devotees of Lord Krishna observe a ritualistic fast during his birth anniversary. Devotees eat only a single meal a day before Janmashtami. On the fasting day, devotees take a Sankalpa to observe a day long fast and to break it on the next day when the Ashtami Tithi is over. They perform the Krishna Abhishekam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51994,9764,51991,51992,51993,40080],"class_list":["post-103710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-ashtami","tag-birth-anniversary","tag-its-janmashtami-krishnas-birthday","tag-janmashtami","tag-krishna-abhishekam","tag-lord-krishna"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}