{"id":52490,"date":"2023-02-09T22:05:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/09\/india-urges-citizens-to-hug-a-cow-on-valentines-day"},"modified":"2023-02-09T22:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T13:05:49","slug":"india-urges-citizens-to-hug-a-cow-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52490","title":{"rendered":"India urges citizens to \u2018hug a cow\u2019 on Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign seeks to boost traditional Indian values and offset \u2018dazzle of western civilisation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has urged people to set aside the \u201cwestern\u201d traditions of Valentine\u2019s Day and instead celebrate the occasion by cuddling up with the country\u2019s sacred cows.<\/p>\n<p>In a new appeal, 14 February has been declared Cow Hug Day, when people are encouraged to take the animals into an embrace. Cows are holy within Hinduism, the majority religion in India, and are considered sacred animals across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/09\/india-urges-citizens-to-hug-a-cow-on-valentines-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign seeks to boost traditional Indian values and offset \u2018dazzle of western civilisation\u2019The Indian government has urged people to set aside the \u201cwestern\u201d traditions of Valentine\u2019s Day and instead celebrate the occasion by cuddling up with the coun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,62,433,61,1115,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-valentines-day","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490\/revisions\/52491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}