{"id":11707,"date":"2006-08-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/14\/supreme-court-put-stay-order-on-tamil-nadu-law-allowing-anyone-to-be-a-priest\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T12:00:00","slug":"supreme-court-put-stay-order-on-tamil-nadu-law-allowing-anyone-to-be-a-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/14\/supreme-court-put-stay-order-on-tamil-nadu-law-allowing-anyone-to-be-a-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Put Stay Order on Tamil Nadu Law Allowing Anyone to be a Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/morenews\/showmorestory.asp?category=National&#038;slug=SC+stays+TN+govt%27s+ordinance&#038;id=91476\">www.ndtv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 14, 2006: Non-Brahmins will now have to wait a while longer before they can apply for the job of a priest in temples in Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court has put a stay on an ordinance passed by the Tamil Nadu government in July, which stated that anybody who was a Hindu could become a priest in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s temples. The Court was hearing two petitions against that ordinance filed by priests from Madurai and Trichy. The apex court has also issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.ndtv.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 14, 2006: Non-Brahmins will now have to wait a while longer before they can apply,&#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-11707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707","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=11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}