{"id":959,"date":"2016-05-23T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2020-07-15T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T04:58:09","slug":"happy-vesak-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Happy Vesak Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Happy-waisak.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-960\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Happy-waisak-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Happy waisak\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Happy-waisak-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Happy-waisak-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Happy-waisak-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Happy-waisak.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ves\u0101kha (Pali; Sanskrit: Vai\u015b\u0101kha), also known as Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, sometimes informally called &#8220;Buddha&#8217;s Birthday&#8221;, it actually commemorates the birth, enlightenment (nirv\u0101na), and death (Parinirv\u0101na) of Gautama Buddha in the Theravada or southern tradition.<br \/>\nOn Ves\u0101kha Day, Buddhists all over the world commemorate events of significance to Buddhists of all traditions: The birth, enlightenment and the passing away of Gautama Buddha. As Buddhism spread from India it was assimilated into many foreign cultures, and consequently Ves\u0101kha is celebrated in many different ways all over the world. In India, Vaishakh Purnima day is also known as Buddha Jayanti day and has been traditionally accepted as Buddha&#8217;s birth day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ves\u0101kha (Pali; Sanskrit: Vai\u015b\u0101kha), also known as Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, sometimes informally called &#8220;Buddha&#8217;s Birthday&#8221;, it actually commemorates the birth, enlightenment (nirv\u0101na), and death (Parinirv\u0101na) of Gautama Buddha in the Theravada or southern tradition. On Ves\u0101kha Day, Buddhists all over the world commemorate events of significance to Buddhists of all traditions: The birth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lem-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}