{"id":16766,"date":"2020-03-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/03\/20\/maran-panguni-uthiram-temple-fest-cancelled-this-year\/"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:00:00","slug":"maran-panguni-uthiram-temple-fest-cancelled-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/03\/20\/maran-panguni-uthiram-temple-fest-cancelled-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Maran Panguni Uthiram Temple Fest Cancelled this Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/nation\/2020\/03\/576174\/maran-panguni-uthiram-temple-fest-cancelled-year\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.nst.com.my\/images\/articles\/MaranTempleNK_NSTfield_image_listing_featured.var_1566812739_1584608925.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>MARANM, MALAYSIA, March 19, 2020 (NST): The annual Panguni Uthiram festival at the prominent Sri Marathandavar Aalayam temple in Sungai Jerik near here, next month, has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak. District police chief Deputy Superintendent Norzamri Abd Rahman said a meeting was held with the temple committee on Wednesday to inform them to cancel the festival scheduled to take place between April 6 and 7. <\/p>\n<p>The 129-year old temple which is surrounded by an oil palm plantation attracts some 450,000 Hindu devotees including tourists annually for its Panguni Uthiram festival, which is also dubbed as a mini-Thaipusam and which is usually held between March and April every year. The festival which marks Panguni Uthiram &#8211; the last month of the Tamil calendar, will also see devotees walking 126 miles from Batu Caves, Selangor to attend the two-day festival at the octagon-shaped temple. &#8220;This is a religious festival and we cannot postpone it to another date. The priest will conduct the pooja (prayer) as scheduled during the prayers but no crowd is allowed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MARANM, MALAYSIA, March 19, 2020 (NST): The annual Panguni Uthiram festival at the prominent Sri Marathandavar Aalayam temple in,&#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-16766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766","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=16766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}