{"id":36887,"date":"2025-12-04T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=36887"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:16:49","slug":"udhauli-and-yomari-punhi-festivals-being-observed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/udhauli-and-yomari-punhi-festivals-being-observed-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Udhauli and Yomari Punhi festivals being observed today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, Dec 4:<\/strong> The Yomari Punhi or Yomari Poornima, and Udhauli festivals are being observed across the country today.<\/p>\n<p>The Yomari Poornima is a festival observed especially by the Newar community of the Valley and is believed to have started 400 years ago. A special delicacy made of rice flour and molasses called Yomari is the major attraction of this festival.<\/p>\n<p>The day is also observed as the Jyapu Day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, people from Kirant community are observing Udhauli festival today. This festival is observed wishing for a good harvest by worshipping the soil and nature. People from the Rai, Limbu, Sunuwar and Yakhya ethnicities observe this festival.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has also announced a public holiday in the country today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Dec 4: The Yomari Punhi or Yomari Poornima, and Udhauli festivals are being observed across the country today. The Yomari Poornima is a festival observed especially by the Newar community of the Valley and is believed to have started 400 years ago. A special delicacy made of rice flour and molasses called Yomari is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36890,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36887\/revisions\/36890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}