{"id":4123,"date":"2013-09-11T06:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T06:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:20:17","slug":"ethiopia-celebrates-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4123","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Celebrates the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethiograph.com\/album\/thumbnails.php?album=138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Ethiopian New Year\" src=\"http:\/\/ethiograph.com\/album\/albums\/v1\/10140\/0200506996177.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>Ethiopians on Wednesday ushered in the new year of 2006. The Ethiopian calendar, contrary to other universally recognized calendars, indicates that there are 13 months in a year.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE), Girma Woldegiorgis, wished citizens of the country a happy new year stating that he hoped the new year would bring with it peace and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>The president also announced that his government had pardoned 458 inmates. He termed the pardons as \u201can indication of the progress registered in the building of the nation&#8217;s democratic and justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged former inmates to assist the newly released group integrate into the community and contribute to national development.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also wished Ethiopians living abroad and foreigners living in Ethiopia a prosperous new year. The ministry expressed hope that Ethiopians in the Diaspora would increase their support towards the country\u2019s development efforts in the year 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said that it hoped in the New Year, the country\u2019s efforts to bring lasting peace and stability in the region would bear fruit.<\/p>\n<p>New Year celebrations in Ethiopia are mainly a family affair where green grass is spread on the floor of their houses to signify a celebratory mood and traditional coffee brewed all day long. The New Year is celebrated by both Muslims and Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopians on Wednesday ushered in the new year of 2006. The Ethiopian calendar, contrary to other universally recognized calendars, indicates that there are 13 months in a year. The president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE), Girma Woldegiorgis,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4123\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}