{"id":16257,"date":"2019-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/01\/01\/ganesha-the-playful-protector\/"},"modified":"2019-01-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:00:00","slug":"ganesha-the-playful-protector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/01\/01\/ganesha-the-playful-protector\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganesha the Playful Protector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denverartmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/ganesha\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DENVER, COLORADO, December 31, 2018 (Denver Art Museum): Ganesha The Playful Protector is developed in collaboration with the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, which is loaning a statue of Ganesha created in the 600s to 700s that is the centerpiece of the exhibition. The 29-inch tall cross-legged figure, featuring human arms and an elephant head, is known as one of the earliest Ganesha icons in mainland Southeast Asia. This significant pre-Angkor artwork is on view along with sculptures, paintings, and textiles from the DAM&#8217;s own collection of ancient to modern representations of the Hindu Deity.<\/p>\n<p>Ganesha, who has been widely worshiped since at least the 400s, originated in India as a Hindu God who removes obstacles and is known for granting wealth and success. Ganesha has crossed both geographic and religious boundaries, inspiring numerous representations throughout the Asian subcontinent over time&#8211;all of which is surveyed in the exhibition to showcase the iconographic changes of this popular God. The exhibit is on view through January 13, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source DENVER, COLORADO, December 31, 2018 (Denver Art Museum): Ganesha The Playful Protector is developed in collaboration with the National,&#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-16257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257","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=16257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}