{"id":13855,"date":"2014-10-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/10\/28\/singapore-s-three-national-monuments-to-undergo-repair-work\/"},"modified":"2014-10-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T12:00:00","slug":"singapore-s-three-national-monuments-to-undergo-repair-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/10\/28\/singapore-s-three-national-monuments-to-undergo-repair-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s Three National Monuments to Undergo Repair Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/news\/singapores-3-national-monuments-to-undergo-repair-work\/506207-2.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Singapore, October 15, 2014 (IBN Live): Singapore&#8217;s National Heritage Board (NHB) has disbursed more than US$1 million in grant for repairs and restoration work at three national monuments, including the oldest Hindu temple in the country.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>It has accorded $44,000 to Sri Mariamman Temple, a Dravidian style temple at South Bridge Road in the Central Business District (CBD) for a repairs and face lift work Strengthening work would be carried out on a single-story shrine next to its main prayer hall, after a crack line developed on a column of the temple.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Jean Wee, NHB director of preservation of Sites and Monuments, said national monuments need to be protected carefully and sensitively through meticulous restorations. &#8220;It is therefore important for us to work hand-in-hand with monument owners and do the best we can to safeguard our heritage,&#8221; The Straits Times quoted Ms. Wee as saying.<\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source Singapore, October 15, 2014 (IBN Live): Singapore&#8217;s National Heritage Board (NHB) has disbursed more than US$1 million in grant,&#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-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855","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=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}