{"id":21439,"date":"2015-10-26T00:45:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T07:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21439"},"modified":"2015-10-26T00:45:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T07:45:43","slug":"sikh-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sikh-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikh Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sikh.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you live in Yuba City, Calif. you know that this weekend&#8217;s big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/yuba-city-sikh-festival.html\">Sikh Festival<\/a> and Parade is taking shape as we speak. With so many diverse cultures and religions in California we had to look this one up to find out what it&#8217;s all about.\u00a0Sikhs, like Christians or Jews,\u00a0adhere to the principles of their religion, Sikhism which originated in Punjab, India. Sikh, which\u00a0is pronounced the same as &#8220;seek&#8221;, translates\u00a0into the English word\u00a0&#8220;disciple&#8221;. \u00a0Sikhs believe in one God\u00a0and\u00a0they shun rituals such as fasting, visiting places of pilgrimage, superstitions, worship of the dead, idol worship etc. \u00a0Sikhism preaches that people of different races, religions, or sex are all equal in the eyes of God. It teaches the full equality of men and women. \u00a0The Sikh Festival is open to the public, attracting\u00a0thousands of people.\u00a0The celebration includes fantastic, free Indian food,\u00a0vendors and a colorful parade. \u00a0This picture was taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/information\/writer-barbara-steinberg.html\">Barbara Steinberg<\/a>, a\u00a0Sacramento travel writer who attended the Sikh Festival previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Yuba City, Calif. you know that this weekend&#8217;s big Sikh Festival and Parade is taking shape as we speak. With so many diverse cultures and religions in California we had to look this one up to find out what it&#8217;s all about.\u00a0Sikhs, like Christians or Jews,\u00a0adhere to the principles of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}