{"id":10175,"date":"2011-05-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/05\/30\/bride-doom-for-hindu-priests\/"},"modified":"2011-05-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:00:00","slug":"bride-doom-for-hindu-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/05\/30\/bride-doom-for-hindu-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Bride Doom For Hindu Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/channels\/cities\/kochi\/bride-doom-hindu-priests-518\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, May 23, 2011 (Deccan Chronicle): The priest of a Hindu temple (Santhikkaran in Malayalam) may be an intermediary of the Divine inside the sanctum sanctorum, but is not even considered a worthy groom outside it. Hundreds of young priests in temples of South Kerala are in distress because no family is willing to give them a bride. &#8220;They are in a very sad situation,&#8221; said Akkeraman Kalidasa Bhattathiripad, president of the Yogakshema Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the measly pay (about US$111 per month) and low official grade, priests don&#8217;t get suitable brides. Distressed by this, the Sabha has decided to conduct on-the-spot Veli (marriage) at its Fest 2011 to be held at the Kottarakkara Brahmana Samooha Mathom on May 29 and 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will bring families of young men and women together and will also arrange a panel of astrologers to examine horoscopes,&#8221; said Mr Muraleedhara Bhattathiri, chairman of the fest. The sabha has also decided to set up a trade union of priests which will be given final shape at the fest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, May 23, 2011 (Deccan Chronicle): The priest of a Hindu temple (Santhikkaran in Malayalam) may be an,&#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-10175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175","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=10175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}