{"id":2949,"date":"2003-03-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/26\/2003-03-26-a-handy-guide-and-description-for-blessing-your-car\/"},"modified":"2003-03-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-26T12:00:00","slug":"2003-03-26-a-handy-guide-and-description-for-blessing-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/03\/26\/2003-03-26-a-handy-guide-and-description-for-blessing-your-car\/","title":{"rendered":"A Handy Guide and Description for Blessing Your Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/~jap5\/newcar\/carpuja.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, USA, May 25, 2002: Hindus bless all implements or items to be used for daily life, protecting them from bad influences and blessing them in God&#8217;s name. This is true of things like homes, cars and motorized vehicles of all types. Emmigration hasn&#8217;t hampered the tradition, and every temple in the US is prepared to do such blessings, one of the most popular of which is for a new car. At this website a devotee shares an instructive step-by-step description of her car blessing ceremony, complete with photos.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, USA, May 25, 2002: Hindus bless all implements or items to be used for daily,&#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-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","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=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}