{"id":2194,"date":"2002-07-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/07\/21\/2002-07-21-lord-ganesha-invoked-for-cricket-players\/"},"modified":"2002-07-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-21T12:00:00","slug":"2002-07-21-lord-ganesha-invoked-for-cricket-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/07\/21\/2002-07-21-lord-ganesha-invoked-for-cricket-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Ganesha Invoked for Cricket Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow.asp?artid=16308820\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, July 18, 2002: Road side temples for Lord Ganesha are a common site in this city. One temple of Lord Ganesha has now been built in the city by a cricket fan to remove obstacles in the way of the Indian cricket team. Ramakrishnan got a granite icon of Ganesh installed with the trunk pointing to the right. This is so because he believes that it helped the right-handed batsmen. Another icon has the trunk pointing to the left, which he believes helped the performance of left-handed players in the team. He claims that Ganesa changed the fortunes of Indian cricket dramatically, and the Indian team went on to win the series against Australia.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE CHENNAI, INDIA, July 18, 2002: Road side temples for Lord Ganesha are a common site in this,&#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-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","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=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}