{"id":12285,"date":"2006-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/10\/16\/annual-festival-takes-precautions-for-firewalkers\/"},"modified":"2006-10-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"annual-festival-takes-precautions-for-firewalkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/10\/16\/annual-festival-takes-precautions-for-firewalkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Festival Takes Precautions for Firewalkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2006\/Brighter_lights_to_pave_way_fore_fi_10022006.html\">rawstory.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SINGAPORE, October 2, 2006:  On an annual basis in Singapore over 3,000 male devotees participate in a fire-walking procession near the Sri Mariamman Temple.  Traditionally the ritual takes place before Deepavali which falls on October 21 this year.  The ceremony requires the participants to walk barefoot down a 15-foot-long bed of hot coals to show their devotion to Sri Mariamman.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rawstory.com SINGAPORE, October 2, 2006: On an annual basis in Singapore over 3,000 male devotees participate in a fire-walking procession,&#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-12285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285","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=12285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}