{"id":4139,"date":"2016-09-04T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2016-09-02T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T11:24:16","slug":"a-festival-rooted-in-courtship-and-marriage-araw-ng-siquijor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2016\/09\/04\/a-festival-rooted-in-courtship-and-marriage-araw-ng-siquijor\/","title":{"rendered":"A festival rooted in courtship and marriage: Araw ng Siquijor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A city\u2019s founding anniversary usually entails celebrations led by the government. Normally held in conjunction with a patron saint, these festivals tend to be generic\u2026 that is, until you see what Siquijor does during <strong><em>Araw ng Siquijor<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Held around the third week of September, Araw ng Siquijor is a celebration of the island\u2019s founding anniversary as a province. It\u2019s a week-long affair with activities that you might expect at every town fiesta: cheer dance competitions, trade events, cultural presentations, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4140\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/09\/Solili-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"Solili\" width=\"850\" height=\"610\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>TRADITION. It\u2019s something that\u2019s unique to Siquijor: the Solili Festival. (Image grabbed from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitmyphilippines.com\/index.php?title=ProvinceofSiquijor&amp;Page=1&amp;pid=3751\">Department of Tourism<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">However, one event separates Siquijor from the rest of the country: the Solili Festival. Every 17<sup>th<\/sup> of September, relatives of grooms from the town of Lazi size up and get to know the bride-to-be. It revolves around the <em>Solili Binalaye<\/em>, a traditional marriage ritual among the people of Lazi, Siquijor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">No schedule has been posted as of this writing, so bookmark this page for when the local government of Siquijor releases the official schedule for this year\u2019s Araw ng Siquijor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.choosephilippines.com\/do\/festivals\/3503\/araw-ng-siquijor-gathering-siquijodnons\/\"><em>ChoosePhilippines<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitmyphilippines.com\/index.php?title=ProvinceofSiquijor&amp;Page=1&amp;pid=3751\"><em>Department of Tourism<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/doonposaamin.ph\/events\/solili-festival-in-lazi-siquijor\"><em>Doon po sa Amin<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city\u2019s founding anniversary usually entails celebrations led by the government. Normally held in conjunction with a patron saint, these festivals tend to be generic\u2026 that is, until you see what Siquijor does during Araw ng Siquijor. Held around the third week of September, Araw ng Siquijor is a celebration of the island\u2019s founding anniversary as a province. It\u2019s a week-long affair with activities that you might expect at every town fiesta: cheer dance competitions, trade events, cultural presentations, etc. \u00a0 TRADITION. It\u2019s something that\u2019s unique to Siquijor: the Solili Festival. (Image grabbed from the Department of Tourism) \u00a0 However, one event separates Siquijor from the rest of the country: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-festival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}