{"id":1514,"date":"2002-01-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/03\/2002-01-03-protests-made-over-comments-on-sacred-ash\/"},"modified":"2002-01-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-03T12:00:00","slug":"2002-01-03-protests-made-over-comments-on-sacred-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/03\/2002-01-03-protests-made-over-comments-on-sacred-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests Made Over Comments on Sacred Ash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Times of India<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, January 3, 2002: About 60 volunteers of the Tamil Nadu unit of Shiv Sena were taken into custody on Wednesday when they attempted to take out a procession to former chief minister M. Karunanidhi&#8217;s residence here in protest against his reported remarks that applying &#8220;Vibhuti&#8221; (sacred ash) on the forehead was superstitious. Earlier, the Sainiks also held a demonstration condemning Karunanidhi for his remarks, police said.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Times of India CHENNAI, INDIA, January 3, 2002: About 60 volunteers of the Tamil Nadu unit of Shiv Sena,&#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-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","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=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}