{"id":11568,"date":"2013-01-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/01\/25\/thaipoosam-thirunaal-all-set-for-fiji-s-nadi-temple\/"},"modified":"2013-01-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T12:00:00","slug":"thaipoosam-thirunaal-all-set-for-fiji-s-nadi-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/01\/25\/thaipoosam-thirunaal-all-set-for-fiji-s-nadi-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Thaipoosam Thirunaal All Set For Fiji&#8217;s Nadi Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejetnewspaper.com\/2013\/01\/23\/thaipoosam-thirunaal-all-set-for-nadi-temple\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FIJI, January 23, 2013 (The Jet): Nadi town will be a hive of activity from tomorrow for the next eleven days as the Sri Siva Subramanya Swamy Temple (Nadi Temple) gets all ready to host the annual Thaipoosam Thirunaal.<\/p>\n<p>The annual prayers draw a large number of devotees to the temple, the largest Hindu shrine in the southern hemisphere from not only all over Fiji but from other overseas countries as well.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gandhi Mestry, the chairman of Devasthanam Board which is the managing authority of the temple, this year&#8217;s function will mark the 87th year of the annual celebrations in Nadi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While there are many important reasons of celebrating the event, the main significance is the victory of good over evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the major attractions of the annual prayers is the piercing of body parts by devotees from all over Fiji and even overseas countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source FIJI, January 23, 2013 (The Jet): Nadi town will be a hive of activity from tomorrow for the next,&#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-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","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=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}