{"id":704,"date":"2020-03-19T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=704"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:52:01","slug":"20-march-nowruz-iranian-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/03\/19\/20-march-nowruz-iranian-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"20 March Nowruz &#8211; Iranian New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-705 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/03\/800px-Wheatgrass-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/03\/800px-Wheatgrass-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/03\/800px-Wheatgrass-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/03\/800px-Wheatgrass.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nowruz\u00a0is the\u00a0Iranian New Year, also known as the\u00a0Persian New Year,\u00a0which is celebrated worldwide by various<br \/>\nethno-linguistic groups.<\/p>\n<p>Nowruz has Iranian and Zoroastrian origins, however, it has been celebrated by diverse communities for over 3,000 years \u00a0It remains a holy day for Zoroastrians, Bahais and some Muslim communities.<\/p>\n<p>Nowruz is the day of the vernal equinox and marks the beginning of spring in the Northern hemisphere. It marks the first day of the first month, Farvardin, in the Iranian calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Growing wheatgrass is one of the most popular traditional preparations for Nowruz.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowruz\u00a0is the\u00a0Iranian New Year, also known as the\u00a0Persian New Year,\u00a0which is celebrated worldwide by various ethno-linguistic groups. Nowruz has Iranian and Zoroastrian origins, however, it has been celebrated by diverse communities for over 3,000 years \u00a0It remains a holy day for Zoroastrians, Bahais and some Muslim communities. Nowruz is the day of the vernal equinox &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/03\/19\/20-march-nowruz-iranian-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20 March Nowruz &#8211; Iranian New Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","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\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}