{"id":11358,"date":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/03\/golden-future-for-gujarat-s-somnath-temple\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","slug":"golden-future-for-gujarat-s-somnath-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/03\/golden-future-for-gujarat-s-somnath-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Future for Gujarat&#8217;s Somnath Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/indiahome\/indianews\/article-2210585\/A-golden-future-store-Gujarats-Somnath-Temple.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GUJARAT, INDIA, September 30, 2012 (Daily Mail): Gujarat&#8217;s Somnath Temple is set to receive a grand gift, of a size more often associated with the Tirumala Temple in Tirupati.<\/p>\n<p>Two diamond merchants, who have chosen to remain anonymous, have pledged a gold-plated Gauripeeth (the rounded elevated area around the Shivalingam) for Lord Somnath.<\/p>\n<p>P.K. Lahiri, secretary of the Somnath Trust, said they have been exploring possibilities with the goldsmith who did a similar job in Badrinath, but no decision has yet been made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gifts have been coming to the trust and big ones at that,&#8221; Lahiri said, noting that Maheshwari Samaj made a pledge of US $760,000 last year, paying it in installments to build a guest house, and Kokilaben Ambani recently gifted US $380,000 to the trust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People make pledges for certain reasons and we implement their wishes with the money they donate,&#8221; he said. He confirmed this one, if done, would cost around US $1.33 million to US $1.425 million and would be the biggest ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source GUJARAT, INDIA, September 30, 2012 (Daily Mail): Gujarat&#8217;s Somnath Temple is set to receive a grand gift, of a,&#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-11358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358","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=11358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}