{"id":2842,"date":"2003-02-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/02\/12\/2003-02-12-what-is-the-literal-meaning-of-oduvar\/"},"modified":"2003-02-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-12T12:00:00","slug":"2003-02-12-what-is-the-literal-meaning-of-oduvar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/02\/12\/2003-02-12-what-is-the-literal-meaning-of-oduvar\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Literal Meaning of &#8220;Oduvar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"mailto:ar@hindu.org\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KAUAI, USA, February 12, 2003: While researching an article on the Oduvars, the traditional temple singers of Tamil Nadu, Hinduism Today&#8217;s staff has unexpectedly not been able to determine the literal meaning of the term &#8220;oduvar,&#8221; or its origin. Anyone with information on the term itself may e-mail &#8220;source&#8221; above.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE KAUAI, USA, February 12, 2003: While researching an article on the Oduvars, the traditional temple singers of,&#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-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}