{"id":77467,"date":"2019-09-01T01:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=77467"},"modified":"2019-09-01T01:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T20:16:44","slug":"solung-celebration-gets-off-to-glittering-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/01\/solung-celebration-gets-off-to-glittering-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Solung celebration gets off to glittering start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>AALO, Aug 31:<\/strong> The celebration of Solung, the popular festival of the Adi community, got off to a colourful start at Gumin Kiin here in West Siang district on Friday.<br \/>\nProminent leader from Rumgong in Siang district, T Jerang, and Boleng ADC Liyi Bagra attended the first day of the celebration. Both Jerang and Bagra emphasized the need to preserve and protect one&#8217;s culture and traditions through such celebrations.<br \/>\nThey said festivals should always be an occasion for promoting unity and oneness among all tribes, although there may be variations in the mode of celebration.<br \/>\nSolung Gidi celebration president Ogong Tamuk said effort is being made to invite the people who were instrumental in celebration of Solung and Mopin festivals in the past together, &#8220;for a nostalgic congregation of the two communities.&#8221;<br \/>\nVarious cultural programmes marked the first day of the celebration.<br \/>\nThe cultural event this year, too, is being organized under the patronage of Central Mopin Preservation and Cultural Society president Mijum Lona.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Itanagar Solung festival committee conducted its first ever chess tournament for boys and girls below 15 years at the Solung-Mopin ground in Itanagar.<br \/>\nMitet Tamuk with 3.5 points emerged the winner, while Gapo Tayeng (3.5 points) and Rahul Paleng (2 points) stood second and third, respectively.<br \/>\nThe tournament was organized to encourage budding chess players. (With DIPRO input)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AALO, Aug 31: The celebration of Solung, the popular festival of the Adi community, got off to a colourful start at Gumin Kiin here in West Siang district on Friday. Prominent leader from Rumgong in Siang district, T Jerang, and Boleng ADC Liyi Bagra attended the first day of the celebration. Both Jerang and Bagra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}