{"id":10134,"date":"2011-05-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/05\/16\/kedarnath-temple-reopens-for-pilgrims\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:00:00","slug":"kedarnath-temple-reopens-for-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/05\/16\/kedarnath-temple-reopens-for-pilgrims\/","title":{"rendered":"Kedarnath Temple Reopens For Pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/story-print\/787498\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEHRADUN, INDIA, May 8, 2011 (Indian Express): The doors of the famous Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath on Sunday reopened for pilgrims after a gap of six months with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank among those having early darshan of Lord Shiva.<\/p>\n<p>Amid blowing of conches and chanting of vedic hymns and shlokas, the Chief priest of Kedarnath shrine Bhimshankar Ling opened the locks of the temple at 5:30 in the morning in the presence of senior<br \/>administrative and police officials, official sources said.<\/p>\n<p>During the opening ceremony, hundreds of devotees were present outside the sanctum sanctorum chanting &#8220;Bam Bam Bhole&#8221; braving chilly winds blowing in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source DEHRADUN, INDIA, May 8, 2011 (Indian Express): The doors of the famous Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath on Sunday reopened,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}