{"id":11455,"date":"2012-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/11\/17\/300-pound-statue-of-hindu-god-is-stolen-from-new-jersey-temple-grounds\/"},"modified":"2012-11-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T12:00:00","slug":"300-pound-statue-of-hindu-god-is-stolen-from-new-jersey-temple-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/11\/17\/300-pound-statue-of-hindu-god-is-stolen-from-new-jersey-temple-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"300-Pound Statue Of Hindu God Is Stolen From New Jersey Temple Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/community\/religion\/houses_of_worship\/300-pound_statue_of_Hindu_god_is_stolen_from_Wayne_temple.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WAYNE, NEW JERSEY, November 14, 2012 (northjersey.com): A 300-pound statue of the Hindu God Siva has been stolen from the Indian Cultural Society Hindu Temple and Mahatma Gandhi Center, according to temple officials who plan to offer a reward for information leading to an arrest. The statue, valued at around US$6,200, was perched on a hill on the temple grounds on Preakness Avenue and is made of a five-metal alloy that contains copper gold and silver.<\/p>\n<p>The statue was last seen around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, and it was discovered missing at about 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, police said. The thieves left a fresh tire track in the grass and boot prints could also be seen, authorities said. The temple&#8217;s camera system was not working, police said. An equally large statue, of Nandi the bull, was left behind. The theft occurred the night after Diwali, which Sanjay Desai, a member of the temple&#8217;s committee, compared to Christmas. Wednesday was the Indian new year. As they arrived for the new year&#8217;s celebration, worshipers were stunned to learn that the statue had been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s heartbreaking,&#8221; said Desai. &#8220;People come from all over to worship here. As they find out, it&#8217;s beyond what they can conceive.&#8221; Desai said he has called friends throughout the country to tell them that the statue was stolen. He said donations are beginning to come in for a reward, which has not been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source WAYNE, NEW JERSEY, November 14, 2012 (northjersey.com): A 300-pound statue of the Hindu God Siva has been stolen from,&#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-11455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455","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=11455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}