{"id":12565,"date":"2011-12-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/16\/india-temple-elephants-sent-on-rejuvenating-holiday\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:00:00","slug":"india-temple-elephants-sent-on-rejuvenating-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/16\/india-temple-elephants-sent-on-rejuvenating-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"India Temple Elephants Sent on &#8216;Rejuvenating&#8217; Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/India temple elephants sent rejuvenating holiday\/5858862\/story.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, December 14, 2011: Tamil Nadu, a southern Indian state, on Wednesday ordered a vacation for elephants employed by temples as part of an official program to &#8220;rejuvenate&#8221; the weary creatures, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>State foresters herded 45 domestic pachyderms from Hindu shrines and hermitages in Tamil Nadu to the coastal state&#8217;s Mudumalai forests for a 48-day break to help them regain lost vigor, they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The elephants were brought in two batches in trucks from various temples and mutts across the state,&#8221; said senior forest department official Ameer Haja. They will eat a special diet of sugarcane, coconuts and banana laced with herbal medication and vitamins during their stay at the rejuvenation camp, Haja added.<\/p>\n<p>Elephants form a traditional part of Hindu rituals in temples, where they bless pilgrims and devotees with their raised trunks. They are also trained to perform other physical duties at the shrines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHENNAI, INDIA, December 14, 2011: Tamil Nadu, a southern Indian state, on Wednesday ordered a vacation for elephants employed,&#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-12565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565","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=12565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}