{"id":610,"date":"2015-05-11T23:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T06:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/?p=610"},"modified":"2015-05-11T23:21:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T06:21:58","slug":"pacifica-institute-orange-county-hosts-ashure-night-january-28th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/2015\/05\/11\/pacifica-institute-orange-county-hosts-ashure-night-january-28th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacifica Institute Orange County hosts Ashure Night (January 28th, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p>Pacifica Institute, Orange County hosted a special dinner in order to celebrate the landing of Noah&#8217;s ark with Noah&#8217;s Pudding (Ashure).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>Members of the local Orange County community met at Pacifica Institute in Irvine to celebrate the landing of Noah&#8217;s ark. This celebration is marked in the Muslim calendar by the traditional sharing of Ashure (Noah&#8217;s Pudding) with one&#8217;s friends, family and neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Every tradition has a story behind it. Noah\u00b4s Pudding, a hodgepodge just like America, has an interesting one to be told.<\/p>\n<p>When Noah&#8217;s ark landed on the mountain after the flood, Noah and his friends prepared a delicacy with a little bit of everything left in the ark: grains, dried fruits, and pulses on the vessel such as figs, nuts, wheat, chickpeas, almonds and apricots. Sugar and love combination worked in a mysterious way, and the outcome was not bad at all as one might think. It turned out to be a delicious, sweet, rich dish called &#8220;Ashura&#8221; passing from generation to generation to be cooked and shared with family, friends and neighbors once a year in Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacifica Institute, Orange County hosted a special dinner in order to celebrate the landing of Noah&#8217;s ark with Noah&#8217;s Pudding (Ashure). Members of the local Orange County community met at Pacifica Institute in Irvine to celebrate the landing of Noah&#8217;s ark. This celebration is marked in the Muslim calendar by the traditional sharing of Ashure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}