{"id":347,"date":"2000-12-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/26\/2000-12-26-living-goddesses-to-receive-pay\/"},"modified":"2000-12-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-12-26T12:00:00","slug":"2000-12-26-living-goddesses-to-receive-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/26\/2000-12-26-living-goddesses-to-receive-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Goddesses To Receive Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/001224\/80\/atiau.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 24, 2000: Nepal, the world&#8217;s only Hindu Kingdom, will begin paying a monthly maintenance allowance to its &#8220;living Goddesses,&#8221; chosen girls worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists. The living Goddesses, all referred to as &#8220;Sri Kumari,&#8221; are revered by thousands in Nepal. In accordance with Nepali tradition, a young girl is carefully chosen to serve as a living Goddess. She then moves away from home and resides in a special home, of which each major area of the city has one. She serves until the onset of puberty. Narendra Man Shrestha, a finance ministry official, announced the government would begin paying a monthly maintenance allowance of US$81.00 to the serving living Goddess and a $40.50 rupee monthly pension after retirement. The benefits are seen as a means to uphold the cultural and religious traditions of Nepal, as well as to compensate for the difficulty some of these girls have in getting married.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 24, 2000: Nepal, the world&#8217;s only Hindu Kingdom, will begin paying a monthly maintenance,&#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-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}