{"id":3480,"date":"2003-09-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/09\/08\/2003-09-08-in-the-face-of-calamity-orissa-children-keep-up-ganesha-faith\/"},"modified":"2003-09-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T12:00:00","slug":"2003-09-08-in-the-face-of-calamity-orissa-children-keep-up-ganesha-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/09\/08\/2003-09-08-in-the-face-of-calamity-orissa-children-keep-up-ganesha-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"In the face of calamity: Orissa children keep up Ganesha faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>ORISSA, INDIA, September 2, 2003: Heavy rains and floods in Orissa this year did not deter children from celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi. The festival is usually celebrated with much enthusiasm by students seeking Lord Ganesha&#8217;s blessings for success in their studies. &#8220;Our school is flooded with water. So we decided to have the puja by the roadside,&#8221; said one student. Ninety percent of the students couldn&#8217;t attend school, but the small and less elaborate puja gave those present a reason to cheer and celebrate. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceORISSA, INDIA, September 2, 2003: Heavy rains and floods in Orissa this year did not deter children from celebrating Ganesh,&#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-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","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=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}