{"id":347,"date":"2009-10-17T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T18:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2016-04-08T00:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T04:33:58","slug":"happy-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/happy-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_349\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-349\" title=\"amin-076highres\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/amin-076highres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Diwali!\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/amin-076highres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/amin-076highres-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Diwali!<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Happy Diwali Everyone!<\/h4>\n<h4>If you&#8217;re not familiar with Diwali, this is a big festival for Indians where we celebrate the &#8220;festival of lights&#8221; with tons of yummy food, parties, and the lighting of &#8220;diyas&#8221; which are small clay pots with cotton string inside filled with oil. What is really cool about this festival is pretty much everyone from India, regardless of their religion, celebrate this festival.<\/h4>\n<h4>I hope everyone has an opportunity to celebrate today with all of your friends and family!<\/h4>\n<h4>Happy Diwali Everyone.<\/h4>\n<h4>-Amin xo<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Diwali Everyone! If you&#8217;re not familiar with Diwali, this is a big festival for Indians where we celebrate the &#8220;festival of lights&#8221; with tons of yummy food, parties, and the lighting of &#8220;diyas&#8221; which are small clay pots with cotton string inside filled with oil. What is really cool about this festival is pretty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloglife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Happy Diwali Everyone! If you&#039;re not familiar with Diwali, this is a big festival for Indians where we celebrate the &quot;festival of lights&quot; with tons of yummy food, parties, and the lighting of &quot;diyas&quot; which are small clay pots with cotton string inside filled with oil. 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