{"id":24766,"date":"2025-10-27T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24766\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:42:07","slug":"diwali-festival-celebrates-culture-and-tradition-in-northeast-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24766\/","title":{"rendered":"Diwali festival celebrates culture and tradition in Northeast Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NORTHEAST FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; One of the most celebrated festivals across India was brought to Northeast Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A Diwali Celebration was held along Maple and Nees Avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The community event is part of the Hindu Festival of Lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Official celebrations began Monday for more than one billion people, including Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Organizers say Diwali holds religious significance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8221;The importance of Diwali is for us to self-reflect and to rid ourselves of the negativity, choose positivity, choose hope, choose goodness and this is that time of year where all families come together to celebrate those important virtues &amp; live harmoniously and to enjoy the spirit of Diwali,&#8221; says Zeal Shah, an outreach administrator for the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Diwali is typically celebrated between the middle of October or the middle of November.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHEAST FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; One of the most celebrated festivals across India was brought to Northeast Fresno.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[19125,790,19123,4107,19124,19120,112,114,113,19121,19122,362,294],"class_list":["post-24766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-19125","tag-community-event","tag-cultural-festival","tag-diwali","tag-diwali-traditions","tag-festival-of-lights","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-hindu-celebration","tag-maple-and-nees-avenues","tag-northeast-fresno","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}