{"id":374,"date":"2009-01-15T17:13:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T09:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vickneswaran.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2009-01-15T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T09:13:35","slug":"happy-cow-ponggal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/happy-cow-ponggal\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Cow Ponggal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To those who don&#8217;t know what is the cow ponggal, actually its a day to thank the cow. Well, back in India, cow are known as sacred animal and they are given very high respect. there fore hindus doesn&#8217;t consume beef because cow gives milk and also being used for farming activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So Cow Ponggal or maatu ponggal is for thanking the cows. Check out some photos below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3122\/3197960309_7459080830.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3535\/3197960317_da39702bc6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3128\/3197960313_ac8eb04c97.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To those who don&#8217;t know what is the cow ponggal, actually its a day to thank the cow. Well, back in India, cow are known as sacred animal and they are given very high respect. there fore hindus doesn&#8217;t consume beef because cow gives milk and also being used for farming activities. So Cow Ponggal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/happy-cow-ponggal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Cow Ponggal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[83,200],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greeting","category-photos","tag-cow-ponggal","tag-ponggal-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vickneswaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}