{"id":1507,"date":"2002-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/01\/2002-01-01-shrine-closed-after-mandalam-festival\/"},"modified":"2002-01-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-01T12:00:00","slug":"2002-01-01-shrine-closed-after-mandalam-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/01\/2002-01-01-shrine-closed-after-mandalam-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrine Closed After Mandalam Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>PATHANAMTHITTA, INDIA, December 26, 2001: The 41-day annual Mandalam festival at the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple came to a close with the Mandala puja today. The Ayyappa idol was adorned with the sacred golden attire, the Thanka Anki, which was was brought to Sabarimala in a procession on Tuesday evening prior to the puja. The Ayyappa temple will be opened on January 1, 2002, for the Makaravilaku festival that begins on January 2 morning. the Makaravilaku day falls on January 14 and the temple will close after the 18 day Makaravilakku festival on January 20 morning.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu PATHANAMTHITTA, INDIA, December 26, 2001: The 41-day annual Mandalam festival at the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple came 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-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}