{"id":11395,"date":"2012-10-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/19\/devotees-throng-penang-temples\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T12:00:00","slug":"devotees-throng-penang-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/19\/devotees-throng-penang-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotees Throng Penang Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/services\/printerfriendly.asp?file=\/2012\/10\/16\/nation\/12178494.asp&#038;sec=nation\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA, October 16, 2012 (The Star): Thousands of devotees, carrying candles and incense, thronged the Nine Emperor Gods (Kew Ong Yeah) temples in Penang to seek blessings and in typical multi-religious style, Hindu devotees marked their \u201a\u00c4\u00faNavarathri\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 (nine nights) vegetarian festival.<br \/>\nOver in Burma Road leading to Tao Bo Kong Temple, there was a bumper-to-bumper crawl stretching a few kilometres as devotees gathered to mark the first day of the Nine Emperor Gods festival. The annual nine-day Taoist festival requires devotees to observe a strict vegetarian diet to cleanse and purify their bodies.<br \/>\nYesterday also saw the first day of the Navarathri festival where Hindu devotees embark on a strict vegetarian diet. Penang Hindu Association deputy chairman P. Murugiah said that it was not uncommon for Hindu students to fast during Navarathri. Navarathri is a celebration to worship the supreme Goddess Shakti in her various forms. Hindus also offer daily prayers, fruits, flowers and coconuts to the Goddess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA, October 16, 2012 (The Star): Thousands of devotees, carrying candles and incense, thronged the Nine Emperor,&#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-11395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395","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=11395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}