{"id":6354,"date":"2012-02-26T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T16:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2012-02-22T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T15:57:15","slug":"happy-ayyam-i-ha-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/02\/26\/happy-ayyam-i-ha-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Ayyam-i-ha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baha’is around the world are celebrating the intercalendary days starting today. Our calendar of 19 months with 19 days leave a 4-5 day gap. \u00c2\u00a0Rather than make some months longer than others, we have a period to fill the gap.<\/p>\n

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Tim & Deb's family Ayyam-i-Ha 007<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following Ayyam-i-ha, Baha’is will observe the Fast. We will abstain from eating and drinking between sunrise and sunset for 19 days. Then it will be our new year, Naw-Ruz.<\/p>\n

When I attended mass as a Catholic, Christmas and Easter where the big observances where there was standing room only. Naw-Ruz is the equivalent in the Baha’i Faith (here anyway). Not so much that this is the only event which brings out certain Baha’is, but that we as a community reach out to our non-Baha’i friends to invite them to Naw-Ruz.<\/p>\n

Photo:\u00c2\u00a0Tim & Deb’s family Ayyam-i-Ha 007<\/a> by Baha’i Views \/ Flitzy Phoebie<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on Flickr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baha’is around the world are celebrating the intercalendary days starting today. Our calendar of 19 months with 19 days leave a 4-5 day gap. \u00c2\u00a0Rather than make some months longer than others, we have a period to fill the gap. Following Ayyam-i-ha, Baha’is will observe the Fast. We will abstain from eating and drinking between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[2380],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-bahai-faith","tag-posted-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1Eu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}