{"id":252076,"date":"2017-01-09T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/?p=98283"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T21:01:05","slug":"chakaan-gaan-ngai-the-living-ritual-festival-of-zeliangrongs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/01\/09\/chakaan-gaan-ngai-the-living-ritual-festival-of-zeliangrongs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chakaan Gaan-Ngai, the living ritual festival of Zeliangrongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contd from previous issue<br \/>\nThe reason for celebration of Gaan-Ngai<br \/>\nTingkao Ragwang  created man to do some important works in this world. But he should not always continue to his works only. He needs rest after hard working. He should perform rites and rituals, cary out cultural and sports activities as thanks-giving to Tingkao Ragwang for rich harvest. People worship and pray to Him for well-being and prosperity in the days to come. Gaan-Ngai is the expression of rejoicing of the community with prayer to Tingkao Ragwang for plenty and welfare.  TRC people want to take part the celebration of Gaan-Ngai festivals for one hundred times however it depends on the mercy of Tingkao Ragwang. Once man dies he never revives except rebirth. Flowers once bloomed will one day regain in course of time. Likewise, Gaan-Ngai festival once celebrated will recycle  endlessly.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/98283-2\/\">http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/98283-2\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contd from previous issue<br \/>\nThe reason for celebration of Gaan-Ngai<br \/>\nTingkao Ragwang  created man to do some important works in this world. But he should not always continue to his works only. He needs rest after hard working. He should perform rites an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"sangaiexpress","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3942],"tags":[3531,3951,3945],"class_list":["post-252076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-sangaiexpress","hentry","category-news","category-sangaiexpress","tag-chaoba-kamson","tag-general-articles","tag-sangaiexpress","post_format-sangaiexpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252104,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252076\/revisions\/252104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}