{"id":53685,"date":"2023-03-22T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T04:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/22\/im-happy-to-have-this-slow-day-bali-marks-new-year-with-day-of-silence"},"modified":"2023-03-22T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T04:57:16","slug":"im-happy-to-have-this-slow-day-bali-marks-new-year-with-day-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53685","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m happy to have this slow day\u2019: Bali marks new year with day of silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark Nyepi, everything from the airport to local supermarkets and ATMs are closed, while residents and tourists remain inside for quiet self-reflection<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2023\/mar\/22\/fighting-with-fire-balis-new-years-eve-celebrations-in-pictures\">Fighting with fire: Bali\u2019s new year\u2019s eve celebrations in pictures<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bali\u2019s typical soundtrack of construction sites and car horns has been replaced for 24 hours with birdsong and the lapping of waves as the island celebrates its annual day of silence.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the Balinese New Year, known as Nyepi, the island\u2019s usually busy streets have fallen quiet with residents and tourists expected to remain indoors for a day of quiet self-reflection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/22\/im-happy-to-have-this-slow-day-bali-marks-new-year-with-day-of-silence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark Nyepi, everything from the airport to local supermarkets and ATMs are closed, while residents and tourists remain inside for quiet self-reflectionFighting with fire: Bali\u2019s new year\u2019s eve celebrations in picturesBali\u2019s typical soundtrack of con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3658,"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":[41,413,156,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bali","category-indonesia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53685","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\/3658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53686,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53685\/revisions\/53686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}