{"id":15353,"date":"2017-01-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/01\/28\/planned-six-star-hotel-in-bali-risks-angering-the-gods-because-it-would-be-taller-than-a-coconut-tree\/"},"modified":"2017-01-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T12:00:00","slug":"planned-six-star-hotel-in-bali-risks-angering-the-gods-because-it-would-be-taller-than-a-coconut-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/01\/28\/planned-six-star-hotel-in-bali-risks-angering-the-gods-because-it-would-be-taller-than-a-coconut-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Six-Star Hotel in Bali Risks Angering the Gods Because It Would Be Taller Than a Coconut Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4159202\/Trump-s-planned-hotel-Bali-risks-angering-Gods.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, January 26, 2017 (Daily Mail): A planned six star hotel in Bali has sparked anger with locals who say the development risks angering the God because it would be taller than a coconut tree. Trump Hotels plans to start work on the resort next year and it will be built on a clifftop overlooking the famous 16th century Hindu temple, Tanah Lot.<\/p>\n<p>Local people on Bali have taken issue with the development given the hotel will feature a large tower. Many Hindus on the island measure the height of buildings in coconut trees and believe that any buildings taller than the trees will anger the Gods.<\/p>\n<p>I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, the local chief of Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia, the country&#8217;s peak Hindu organization told Bloomberg: &#8220;I would strongly recommend against any new developments that impact the temple. These things are sensitive in Bali. The Balinese don&#8217;t tend to speak up, but these things related to the sacredness of the temple are very sensitive, only the enforcement is too weak.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>HPI Note: Our island of Kauai, where Hinduism Today and HPI are produced, has the same restriction in its county building codes: nothing may be built taller than 48 feet, four stories, based on the height of a coconut tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED KINGDOM, January 26, 2017 (Daily Mail): A planned six star hotel in Bali has sparked anger with locals,&#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-15353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353","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=15353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}