{"id":281,"date":"2024-09-27T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/?p=281"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T09:30:05","slug":"local-villagers-express-their-love-for-amma-in-an-annual-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/2024\/09\/27\/local-villagers-express-their-love-for-amma-in-an-annual-procession\/","title":{"rendered":"Local villagers express their love for Amma in an annual procession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 30 years, citizens of Amritapuri\u2019s surrounding fishing villages have carried out a tradition of love, devotion, and gratitude for Amma\u2019s birthday. The Parayakadav Amrita Seva Sangham and all the Karayogams (social groups) of Alappad Panchayat offer their respects to her in a sacred procession.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It begins at the Pariyakkadav Sree Ponnabhagavathy Temple and reaches its blessed moment with an offering of Purnakumbhan to Amma, a pot filled with water and decorated with mango leaves, a coconut, kumkum, and turmeric to represent abundant prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 30 years, citizens of Amritapuri\u2019s surrounding fishing villages have carried out a tradition of love, devotion, and gratitude for Amma\u2019s birthday. The Parayakadav Amrita Seva Sangham and all the Karayogams (social groups) of Alappad Panchayat offer their respects to her in a sacred procession. &nbsp; It begins at the Pariyakkadav Sree Ponnabhagavathy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/2024\/09\/27\/local-villagers-express-their-love-for-amma-in-an-annual-procession\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local villagers express their love for Amma in an annual procession<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amritavarsham-71","entry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/Local-villagers-express-their-love-for-Amma-in-an-annual-procession.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amritavarsham.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}