{"id":438506,"date":"2026-11-08T13:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T07:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=438506"},"modified":"2026-11-08T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T07:55:50","slug":"nation-observes-laxmi-puja-with-devotion-and-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/438506.html","title":{"rendered":"Nation observing Laxmi Puja with devotion and festivities today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/paa791_a01-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-438507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/paa791_a01-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/paa791_a01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/paa791_a01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/paa791_a01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/paa791_a01.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KATHMANDU \u2014 Laxmi Puja, the second day of the five-day Tihar festival (Yamapanchak), is being celebrated nationwide with religious rituals, festive illuminations, and traditional devotions dedicated to Goddess Laxmi, the deity of wealth and prosperity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Homes, courtyards, and temples are illuminated with oil and electric lamps for &#8216;Sukha Ratri,&#8217; while devotees draw symbolic footprints to welcome the goddess, and women perform traditional &#8216;Bhailo&#8217; songs and dances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU \u2014 Laxmi Puja, the second day of the five-day Tihar festival (Yamapanchak), is being celebrated nationwide with religious rituals, festive illuminations, and traditional devotions dedicated to Goddess Laxmi, the deity of wealth and prosperity. Homes, courtyards, and temples are illuminated with oil and electric lamps for &#8216;Sukha Ratri,&#8217; while devotees draw symbolic footprints to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":438507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,8,3,6,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-438506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-featured","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438509,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438506\/revisions\/438509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438506"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=438506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}