{"id":940,"date":"2009-10-11T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T05:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2024-11-25T14:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:24:44","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2009\/10\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diwali (<em>Deepavali<\/em>) is a significant festival for millions of people around the world.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diwali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Diwali is popularly known as the &#8220;festival of lights&#8221;, the most significant spiritual meaning is &#8220;the awareness of the inner light&#8221;&#8230; While the story behind Diwali varies from region to region, the essence is the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Just as we celebrate the birth of our physical being, Diwali is the celebration of this inner light, in particular the knowing of which outshines all darkness (removes all obstacles and dispels all ignorance), awakening the individual to one&#8217;s true nature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me?\u00a0\u00a0I chose to celebrate this Diwali with a new beginning to my online presence.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been busy the past few weeks, working on the migration.\u00a0\u00a0And, I am pleased to say that the entire process is now complete.<\/p>\n<p>A new domain name and new email ids for the entire family.\u00a0 New designs for both my blogs.\u00a0 A completely new photoblog.\u00a0 And, a new website for all my online initiatives&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/Naveen.Bachwani.com\">http:\/\/Naveen.Bachwani.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diwali (Deepavali) is a significant festival for millions of people around the world.\u00a0 Wikipedia writes: While Diwali is popularly known as the &#8220;festival of lights&#8221;,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-etcetera"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4941,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/4941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}