{"id":16702,"date":"2020-01-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/01\/25\/delaware-temple-welcomes-massive-statue-of-hindu-god\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:00:00","slug":"delaware-temple-welcomes-massive-statue-of-hindu-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/01\/25\/delaware-temple-welcomes-massive-statue-of-hindu-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Temple Welcomes Massive Statue of Hindu God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/delaware-temple-welcomes-massive-statue-of-hindu-god\/2020\/01\/19\/ffaf4fe8-3add-11ea-afe2-090eb37b60b1_story.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/01\/18\/PWIL\/5534ac6a-b83f-405d-bb2f-6828ec06b333-IMG_1406.jpg?crop=2880,2880,x496,y0&#038;quality=10\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>HOCKESSIN, DELAWARE, January 19, 2020 (Washington Post): A Delaware temple is now home to a statue of a Hindu God said to be the tallest in the country. Hundreds of people celebrated the arrival of the 25-foot, 20-ton granite statue of the Hindu God Hanuman Saturday morning at a temple in Hockessin, The News Journal reported. A welcome ceremony was held after a truck delivered the 60,000-pound statue. &#8220;Across India, Lord Hanuman is often enshrined and worshiped in the form of a towering statue and we are proud to bring that tradition to Delaware,&#8221; Patibanda Sarma, president of the Hindu Temple Association, told the newspaper. Organizers of the effort to bring the statue to Delaware said it will be the tallest statue of a Hindu God carved out of a single piece of stone in the U.S. Sculptors in India spent about a year carving it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source HOCKESSIN, DELAWARE, January 19, 2020 (Washington Post): A Delaware temple is now home to a statue of a Hindu,&#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-16702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702","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=16702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}