{"id":4361,"date":"2015-04-16T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T11:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2015-04-16T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T11:36:01","slug":"the-saree-an-unending-love-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"The Saree: an unending love affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429123449787_2652\" class=\"\">My love affair with my most favourite garment which started in childhood takes a new turn today. Joined the movement 100sareepact on the auspicious day of Poila Baishak.\u00a0<\/span><a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429123449787_2677\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/100sareepact\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\">#100sareepact<\/a><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429123449787_2697\" class=\"\">\u00a0Anju Maudgal Kadam and Ally Matthan.<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429123449787_2653\" class=\"\"><br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>The story behind this saree<br class=\"\" \/>This picture was taken on my birthday last year at Gandhi Ghat on the banks the Ganga. I had been there on an official trip to train engineering students at Patna and this was the first time I was alone without my family on the morning of my birthday. I felt quite low so I decided that the best way to lift my spirits in the chilly weather would be an early morning visit to the Ganges and take her blessings. I must say that she blessed me with strength that I would need to bear my personal loss a couple of months later. This white and red bordered tangail saree was presented to me by a colleague who stood by me during my loss. According to me, the colour white stands for the purity and red for strength in friendship.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My love affair with my most favourite garment which started in childhood takes a new turn today. Joined the movement 100sareepact on the auspicious day of Poila Baishak.\u00a0#100sareepact\u00a0Anju Maudgal Kadam and Ally Matthan.The story behind this sareeThis picture was taken on my birthday last year at Gandhi Ghat on the banks the Ganga. I had&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=4361\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,226],"tags":[299],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}