{"id":13942,"date":"2014-12-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/12\/26\/conversion-ceremony-long-offered-at-kerala-temples\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T12:00:00","slug":"conversion-ceremony-long-offered-at-kerala-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/12\/26\/conversion-ceremony-long-offered-at-kerala-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion Ceremony Long Offered at Kerala Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/141224\/nation-current-affairs\/article\/conversion-'vazhipad'-kaviyoor-temple\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KOCHI, KERALA, INDIA, December 24, 2014 (Deccan Chronical): Even as the wrangle over conversion and Ghar Vapas (&#8220;return to home) continues, a temple in Kaviyoor in Kottayam district has on its notice board &#8220;conversion&#8221; as an item of offering for the Deity of the temple. The Thrikkaviyoor temple under Travancore Devaswom Board has listed conversion in a long list of offerings starting with Ganapathi homam. Conversion is item number 46 next to marriage and and the rate per head is US$2.46.<\/p>\n<p>When queried how conversion found its way to the itinerary of offerings, TDB commissioner P. Venugopal said that this was there from the very beginning. &#8220;Some of the temples have conversion in the list which I think is as old as the existence of the TDB. But I don&#8217;t think any mass conversion is happening on account of this. This may be to facilitate caste certificates to gain reservation benefits,&#8221; said Mr Venugopal. Mr P.K. Sivan Pillai, a native of Kaviyoor, said that conversion was in the itinerary of offerings of major temples under TDB. &#8220;It&#8217;s not part of minor temples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KOCHI, KERALA, INDIA, December 24, 2014 (Deccan Chronical): Even as the wrangle over conversion and Ghar Vapas (&#8220;return to,&#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-13942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942","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=13942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}