{"id":2037,"date":"2016-12-26T14:44:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T08:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2016-12-26T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T08:59:52","slug":"sauraha-enjoying-elephant-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/archives\/2037","title":{"rendered":"Sauraha enjoying Elephant Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chitwan, December 26th 2016 : An elephant festival has kicked off in Sauraha of Chitwan today with a view to boosting up local tourism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The festival, aimed at prolonging stay of tourists in the town, is organised coinciding with Christmas and the English New Year, according to Regional Hotel Association, Chitwan, the event organiser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The festival began with the eye-catching procession of bedecked elephants that originated from the eastern sector of the Chitwan National Park and passed through Sauraha. A Tharu cultural rally was also the part of the inaugural session of the festival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nine various programmes including elephant &#8216;fast walk&#8217; tournament, elephant Polo, a football match among elephant calves, cart race, elephant painting, picnic for elephants, a cultural programme and a boat riding competition are the parts of the festival, Association Secretary Rammani Khanal said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The festival is the continuity of the Elephant Race Tournament that used to be held in Sauraha 12 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chitwan, December 26th 2016 : An elephant festival has kicked off in Sauraha of Chitwan today with a view to boosting up local tourism. The festival, aimed at prolonging stay <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/archives\/2037\" title=\"Sauraha enjoying Elephant Festival\">[\u0925\u092a \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930&#8230;..\/Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}