{"id":157,"date":"2024-06-21T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/?p=157"},"modified":"2024-07-21T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T19:07:51","slug":"what-is-parai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/2024\/06\/21\/what-is-parai\/","title":{"rendered":"What is parai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Para means &#8220;to announce&#8221; in Tamil.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parai is an easy-to-learn drum for all age groups and its music uplifts both the player and the listener.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are references to Parai music in \u201cTholkaappiyam\u201d the ancient grammar book written five thousand (<strong>5000<\/strong>) years ago.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parai drum\u2019s echoes through thirty-five different events\u2014celebrations, battles, and moments of refuge. In the midst of war, it becomes a beacon of hope, guiding mothers, women, and children away from the darkness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/VengaiTable_English-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/VengaiTable_English-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/VengaiTable_English-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/VengaiTable_English-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/VengaiTable_English-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/VengaiTable_English.jpg 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspire","category-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cincytamilsangam.org\/vengai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}