{"id":449,"date":"2008-03-20T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=449"},"modified":"2018-11-22T01:07:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T20:07:15","slug":"welcome-spring-nowruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/welcome-spring-nowruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Spring \/ Nowruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/nowruz_istanbul.jpg\" alt=\"nowruz_istanbul.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We saw our first migratory Canada Goose here this week\u2026 the sun is growing in strength, puddles of water are emerging\u2026 spring appears to have once again sprung\u2026 today is the Spring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equinox\" target=\"_blank\">Equinox<\/a>. In Turkey (and all other Persian cultures), today is the Iranian new year, or Nowruz (also spelled Norooz, Norouz, Newroz, Newrooz\u2026). <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newroz\" target=\"_blank\">Nowruz<\/a> is said to have been celebrated for some 15,000 years\u2014even before the end of the last ice age.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Image by <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Bertilvidet\" target=\"_blank\">Bertil Videt<\/a>: Kurds in Istanbul celebrate Nowruz by jumping over fire (looks like fun\u2014perhaps we\u2019ll try that on the weekend).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada We saw our first migratory Canada Goose here this week\u2026 the sun is growing in strength, puddles of water are emerging\u2026 spring appears to have once again sprung\u2026 today is the Spring Equinox. In Turkey (and all other Persian cultures), today is the Iranian new year, or Nowruz (also spelled Norooz, Norouz, Newroz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,21,14,15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16995,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/16995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}