{"id":11779,"date":"2006-09-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/09\/19\/jeans-clad-deity-costs-priest-his-job\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T12:00:00","slug":"jeans-clad-deity-costs-priest-his-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/09\/19\/jeans-clad-deity-costs-priest-his-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeans Clad Deity Costs Priest His Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/jeansclad-krishna-costs-priest-his-job\/21895-3.html\">www.ibnlive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">VRINDAVAN, INDIA, September 19, 2006: The caretaker of the Banke Bihari temple Jugal Goswami was relieved from all the responsibilities of the temple on Monday. Goswami, at the request of some fun-loving devotees, gave the Deity on Thursday a &#8220;modern look&#8221; complete with jeans and a shirt and wielding a mobile phone. The Western dressing of the Deity had led to strong protests in the holy town and raised a public outrage. Goswami, who apologized over the incident, urged people not to lend a political colour to the entire episode. &#8220;We devotees of Banke Behari are very much concerned and this should not be lend any political color by the political parties,&#8221; said Jugal Goswami. But the exit of Goswami seemed very imminent as Gokal Behari Das, Mahant of the temple said, &#8220;This is a shameful work. Lord Krishna wearing T-shirt and jeans is really insulting. We want that the people who are involved in this degrading crime arrested.&#8221; Vrindavan one of the holiest places of the Hindu religion, remained completely closed on Monday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.ibnlive.com VRINDAVAN, INDIA, September 19, 2006: The caretaker of the Banke Bihari temple Jugal Goswami was relieved from all the,&#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-11779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779","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=11779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}