{"id":706963,"date":"2010-04-01T06:07:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T10:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/92307ce3ff711651d5d1ebe0c4b4edf6"},"modified":"2010-04-01T06:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T10:07:49","slug":"what-is-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706963","title":{"rendered":"What Is Easter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is a Christian celebration \u2013 the most important holiday of the Christian year which celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ after his death by crucifixion. Easter falls on a Sunday, because of which it is also referred to as the Sunday of Resurrection or the Resurrection Day. Easter is actually a feast of eight days, which is called the Octave of Easter. <\/p>\n<p>The Easter Season, also known as the Eastertide, begins on the Easter Sunday and continues until Pentecost in the Christian liturgical calendar, thereby covering a total of seven weeks. Some denominations like the Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Churches initially included the next two weeks as part of the Eastertide as well. <\/p>\n<p>While the reason of celebration is the Resurrection of Christ, one of the most looked forward practices of this occasion, particularly by children, is the exchange of Easter eggs!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/C62aVDN7k2k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is a Christian celebration \u2013 the most important holiday of the Christian year which celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ after his death by crucifixion. Easter falls on a Sunday, because of which it is also referred to as the Sunday of Resurrection or the Resurrection Day. Easter is actually a feast of eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XUD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}