{"id":642,"date":"2007-02-17T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T22:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2007-02-18T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T23:34:51","slug":"642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>MUNDAN\u00a0CEREMONY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The mundan ceremony is a Hindu rite, or sanskara,\u00a0in which a boy receives his first haircut. This sanskara is performed typically during the first year of age when\u00a0the\u00a0child&#8217;s hair is shaved. In Hindu tradition, the hair from birth is associated with undesirable traits from past lives. Thus at the time of the mundan, the child is freshly shaved to signify freedom from the past and moving into the future.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image641\" style=\"width: 201px; height: 108px\" height=\"108\" alt=\"116.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/116.JPG\" width=\"201\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image640\" style=\"width: 204px; height: 108px\" height=\"108\" alt=\"22.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/22.JPG\" width=\"204\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image639\" style=\"width: 197px; height: 112px\" height=\"112\" alt=\"31.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/31.JPG\" width=\"197\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image638\" style=\"width: 206px; height: 111px\" height=\"111\" alt=\"4.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/4.JPG\" width=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image636\" style=\"width: 194px; height: 114px\" height=\"114\" alt=\"6.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/6.JPG\" width=\"194\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image635\" style=\"width: 203px; height: 115px\" height=\"115\" alt=\"7.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/7.JPG\" width=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image634\" style=\"width: 191px; height: 113px\" height=\"113\" alt=\"81.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/81.JPG\" width=\"191\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image631\" style=\"width: 205px; height: 113px\" height=\"113\" alt=\"10.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/10.JPG\" width=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUNDAN\u00a0CEREMONY The mundan ceremony is a Hindu rite, or sanskara,\u00a0in which a boy receives his first haircut. This sanskara is performed typically during the first year of age when\u00a0the\u00a0child&#8217;s hair is shaved. In Hindu tradition, the hair from birth is associated with undesirable traits from past lives. Thus at the time of the mundan, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kiransworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}