{"id":9949,"date":"2026-03-23T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:05:18","slug":"selamat-hari-raya-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/23\/selamat-hari-raya-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Selamat Hari Raya!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not bothering with a randomly generated graphic or a stock photo or whatever. This year&#8217;s Ramadan, is actually quite a wild ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Internationally, the world is&#8230; Well, you can read the news. Or maybe in the future you can&#8217;t if the internet is down. No worries, I usually have a hard copy journal too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgOiSRfRGOE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you watched Scarlet (animated by Studio Chizu)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a bias with pink haired characters, having <em>natural<\/em> pink hair myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a message of hope in these trying times. It says it&#8217;s inspired by Hamlet but&#8230; It looks like it was inspired by something much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, why can&#8217;t you choose to be kind to others? Why do you have to be a douche or think only about yourself? Or even worse, step down on others to be on top?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s such a specific message of hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The animated movie is kind of fitting for hari raya having premiered in selected cinemas in Singapore on 12 March. I saw the trailer and just went off when I could to watch it and went &#8220;Oh.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The imagery and the music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not as literal as you see, you need to understand it as a whole and our current climate and also think. What <em>is<\/em> possible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you did watch it, tell me what you thought of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not bothering with a randomly generated graphic or a stock photo or whatever. This year&#8217;s Ramadan, is actually quite a wild ride. Internationally, the world is&#8230; Well, you can read the news. Or maybe in the future you can&#8217;t if the internet is down. No worries, I usually have a hard copy journal too. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/23\/selamat-hari-raya-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Selamat Hari Raya!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[160],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-9949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reaction-shots","tag-movie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-2At","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9951,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions\/9951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}