{"id":313,"date":"2006-08-30T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2006-08-30T22:13:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:13:14","slug":"chanting-his-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/chanting-his-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanting His Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/photos\/20060731B_20D_070.jpg?resize=433%2C624&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"433\" height=\"624\" alt=\"Chanting His Blessings\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nIn continuation of the recent series on the Javanese wedding at Ceromo Lawang&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When the groom arrived at the bride&#8217;s house, they were led into and seated in the hall where blessings were chanted by this man in a religious ceremony. I am not exactly sure what he was chanting, but I guess it was all for good luck. As he chanted, he would use a brush and glisten offerings of food with (what I assume was) &#8220;holy water&#8221;. I managed to catch him in his chant against the interesting wedding decor within the hall. I am not sure what a fellow photographer actually shot right beside me, but I was quite pleased with the composition I got in the end, given the tight space constraints \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_20060731B_20D_070.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Chanting His Blessings\" \/>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candids","category-travel","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/przUn-53","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}