{"id":3876,"date":"2025-04-06T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2025-04-02T14:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:23:50","slug":"rama-navami-6-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2025\/04\/06\/rama-navami-6-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama Navami (6 April 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Post submitted by Erin, one of our Student Experience Ambassadors<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW24383968 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">The 6th of April 2025 marks the Hindu festival \u2018Rama Navami\u2019, it is an important Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of the Lord Rama, who is the seventh avatar of the god Vishnu. This is celebrated with prayers, fasting and devotional activities. People who wish to partake in the festival visit temples and sing devotional songs that are dedicated to Lord Rama (which are known as bhajans). Some people fast throughout the day, whilst others <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW24383968 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">choose to celebrate with large processions, re-enactments of scenes from the Ramayana, and decorative displays of Lord Rama\u2019s life. This day of celebration is to remind people of the power of devotion, righteousness, and the triumph of good over evil.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post submitted by Erin, one of our Student Experience Ambassadors The 6th of April 2025 marks the Hindu festival \u2018Rama Navami\u2019, it is an important Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of the Lord Rama, who is the seventh avatar of the god Vishnu. This is celebrated with prayers, fasting and devotional activities. People who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2025\/04\/06\/rama-navami-6-april-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rama Navami (6 April 2025)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annual-celebration","category-student-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}