{"id":1060,"date":"2018-03-20T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T10:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2018-03-20T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T10:35:37","slug":"noroozs-sabzeh-and-wishing-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/1060\/noroozs-sabzeh-and-wishing-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Norooz&#8217;s sabzeh and wishing for love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the traditions of Norooz, the Persian New Year, is to grow <em>sabzeh<\/em>\u00a0a couple weeks before the start of Spring for it to be ready for the <em>Haft Seen<\/em>, a spread of items starting with the Persian letter &#8220;seen&#8221; (and also some not starting with &#8220;seen&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/haftseen.jpg\" alt=\"haftseen\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/haftseen.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/haftseen-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sabzeh is a grass grown with wheat, barley, or lentils.\u00a0 It is a symbol of growth.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the thirteenth day after Norooz, it is Sizdah Bedar, literally meaning the outing on the thirteenth.\u00a0 It is the day\u00a0family and friends spend time picnicking outdoors, and also when the sabzeh is thrown into a stream, river, or other free\u00a0flowing water.\u00a0 Traditionally, young women looking for love and to get married tie knots into the sabzeh before throwing it into the water.\u00a0 Men, feel free to do it too!<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the traditions of Norooz, the Persian New Year, is to grow sabzeh\u00a0a couple weeks before the start of Spring for it to be ready for the Haft Seen, a spread of items starting with the Persian letter &#8220;seen&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/1060\/noroozs-sabzeh-and-wishing-for-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[594,593,592,595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}