{"id":6417,"date":"2022-07-01T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjameswatertown.org\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2022-07-11T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:11:28","slug":"vartavar-celebration-sunday-july-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/vartavar-celebration-sunday-july-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Vartavar Celebration! Sunday, July 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Vartavar-2022-Banner_Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Vartavar-2022-Banner_Web-1024x389.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Vartavar-2022-Banner_Web-1024x389.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Vartavar-2022-Banner_Web-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Vartavar-2022-Banner_Web-768x291.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Vartavar-2022-Banner_Web.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Join us for our Annual Vartavar Celebration!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sunday, July 24 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm in the School Street Parking Lot<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Inflatable Water Slide |&nbsp;Water Balloons |&nbsp;Sprinklers, Pails, Buckets, and More!<br>Ice Cream and Snacks! |&nbsp;All ages welcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/dd03df231fa5006b8bfa48dd0\/files\/674cf37e-45da-0d98-bcbe-8e8cad18049d\/Vartavar2022.pdf\">flyer<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stjameswatertown.smugmug.com\/Parish-Life\/2021-Vartavar-Celebration\/\">photos from last year's celebration.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>What is Vartavar?<\/strong>&nbsp;Vartavar is a water festival in Armenia that has been celebrated since pagan times and was adopted and adapted by Christianity.&nbsp;The festival is celebrated on the streets of Yerevan where people douse friends, family and complete strangers with water.&nbsp;The day was originally dedicated to Astghik, the pagan goddess of water, love, and fertility. Its name comes from the roses&nbsp;that were offered to her during the celebration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DWOb2nPGD5o\" target=\"_blank\">Watch a video about Vartavar prepared by the Eastern Diocese.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join us for our Annual Vartavar Celebration! Sunday, July 24 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm in the School Street Parking Lot Inflatable Water Slide |&nbsp;Water Balloons |&nbsp;Sprinklers, Pails, Buckets, and More!Ice Cream and Snacks! |&nbsp;All ages welcome! View a&nbsp;flyer&nbsp;and&nbsp;photos from last year's celebration. What is Vartavar?&nbsp;Vartavar is a water festival in Armenia that has been celebrated since pagan times and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/vartavar-celebration-sunday-july-24\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6819,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions\/6819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjameswatertown.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}