{"id":10241,"date":"2011-06-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/06\/22\/dress-code-must-at-somnath-temple\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:00:00","slug":"dress-code-must-at-somnath-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/06\/22\/dress-code-must-at-somnath-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Dress Code Must At Somnath Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/ahmedabad\/Dress-code-must-at-Somnath-temple\/articleshow\/8843129.cms?prtpage=1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AHMEDABAD, INDIA, June 14, 2011 (Times of India): Next time you enter the Somnath temple, ensure that you have removed your belt and are not in &#8220;improper or disrespectful&#8221; dress. The Shree Somnath Trust has recently imposed a dress code banning short skirts and shorts.<\/p>\n<p>A board at the security counter reads, &#8220;Not allowed inside the temple improper disrespectful dress&#8221;. This board has been put up recently about 200 metres from the main temple. A guard posted there said, &#8220;Earlier, too, there were instructions but the code was not followed strictly. Now we will not allow indecent clothing.&#8221; He said with the tourism department having made the nearby beach a tourist spot, visitors in a large number came wearing short pants.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the trust said that other temples too follow strict dress codes and even jeans are banned for women, but at Somnath, the trust had &#8212; until now &#8212; permitted it. He said they were not so strict when it came to dress code for women. &#8220;Children in bermudas are allowed.&#8221; However, the tourists are not bothered about the dress code. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source AHMEDABAD, INDIA, June 14, 2011 (Times of India): Next time you enter the Somnath temple, ensure that you have,&#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-10241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241","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=10241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}