{"id":2168,"date":"2010-03-20T17:44:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T16:46:28","slug":"happy-iranian-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"Happy Iranian New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nowruz\">Iranian New Year<\/a> and we celebrated it with Iranian friends here in London.<\/p>\n<p>The New Year celebrations go by many names, typically Nowruz meaning &#8216;new day&#8217;. The event is unrelated to Islam and indeed precedes it.<\/p>\n<p>We marked the occasion at the London flat of Iranian brother and sister Mehrdad and Manoosh, whom we met on the flight to Tehran when we went on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Iran.html\">our holiday to Iran<\/a>, together with their elderly parents Abbas and Mehri.<\/p>\n<p>They followed the tradition of setting out on a little table seven items with names beginning with the Farsi letter &#8216;s&#8217; &#8211; a practice known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haft-Sin\">Haft Sin<\/a>. In accordance with tradition, the table also carried a copy of the Koran, a book of poetry by Hafez, a bowl with goldfish, and a photograph of their recently deceased sister.<\/p>\n<p>We had traditional Iranian food for lunch and looked at the photographs of our trip, feeling privileged to share this special day with special friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Iranian New Year and we celebrated it with Iranian friends here in London. The New Year celebrations go by many names, typically Nowruz meaning &#8216;new day&#8217;. The event is unrelated to Islam and indeed precedes it. We marked the occasion at the London flat of Iranian brother and sister Mehrdad and Manoosh, whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}