{"id":12563,"date":"2011-09-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/15\/sixteen-hour-queue-for-glimpse-of-ganesha-2\/"},"modified":"2011-09-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T12:00:00","slug":"sixteen-hour-queue-for-glimpse-of-ganesha-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/15\/sixteen-hour-queue-for-glimpse-of-ganesha-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen-Hour Queue For Glimpse Of Ganesha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/cities\/16-hours-in-line-for-one-minute-with-ganesha-131371\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, September 05, 2011 (Mid-Day.com): Pilgrims have endured a 16-hour wait in line for a glimpse of Ganapati at Lalbaugcha Raja.<\/p>\n<p>Devotees queueing up at Abhudya Nagar in the Navasachi line&#8211;for devotees who seek Ganapati&#8217;s blessings to obtain specific goals&#8211;at 2:00 pm Saturday received their glimpse of Ganesha only at 6:00 am Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The authorities had thoughtfully lined the queue with chairs, since the line failed to move for hours at a stretch. Devotees did what they could to help one another. For awhile, a group of college students entertained the other devotees with songs and dances. Devotees who had brought tea shared it with others. Sometime after 7:30 pm, in the twelfth row, volunteers served a welcome snack of poha; and at 2:30 am Sunday, separated from the pandal by only ten more divisions and a bridge, devotees found clean toilets.<\/p>\n<p>Children in the queue became exhausted and wept copiously. A class III student, Aditya Pai, persevered: &#8220;I came here to see Lord Ganapati, and I won&#8217;t sleep a wink until I see him. I am a strong boy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At precisely 6 am, the devotees in this part of the queue obtained their glimpse of Ganapati.<\/p>\n<p>Rajendra Lanjwal, treasurer of the Mandal, later explained, &#8220;You received darshan after the protracted wait because we had shut the VIP entry. The distance from Kalachowki to the Lord&#8217;s feet is a good 12 km.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MUMBAI, INDIA, September 05, 2011 (Mid-Day.com): Pilgrims have endured a 16-hour wait in line for a glimpse of Ganapati,&#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-12563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563","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=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}