{"id":152715,"date":"2023-03-13T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=152715"},"modified":"2023-03-13T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:25:00","slug":"celebrating-chelleh-night-by-zoroastrian-seniors-of-kerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=152715","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating chelleh night by Zoroastrian seniors of Kerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the last Thursday of Azar (December) Chelleh night was celebrated at Hemat and Mehr&#8217;s House in Kerman.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The residents celebrated this night with a &#8220;chak-o-duleh&#8221; ceremony (fun fortune telling), recitation of couplets, and reading poems from Hafez, Watermelon, pomegranate and cookies were served.\u00a0 Below is the visual report of this ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152717 aligncenter\" 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height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-10-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-10-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152720 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-11-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-11-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-11-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152721 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-12-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-12-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-12-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152722 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-13-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-13-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-13-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152723 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-14-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-14-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-14-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152724 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-15-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-15-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-15-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152725 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-16-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-16-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-16-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152726 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-17-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-17-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-17-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152727 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-18-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-18-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-18-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152728 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-2-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-2-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-2-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152729 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152730 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-4-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-4-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-4-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-152731 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-5-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-5-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-5-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Photos by Mahnoush Farahmand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last Thursday of Azar (December) Chelleh night was celebrated at Hemat and Mehr&#8217;s House in Kerman.\u00a0 The residents celebrated this night with a &#8220;chak-o-duleh&#8221; ceremony (fun fortune telling), recitation of couplets, and reading poems from Hafez, Watermelon, pomegranate and cookies were served.\u00a0 Below is the visual report of this ceremony. Photos by Mahnoush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":152719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[97,57],"class_list":["post-152715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-celebrating-chelleh-night","tag-kerman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}