{"id":368,"date":"2001-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/01\/01\/2001-01-01-singapore-hindus-celebrate-thai-pusam\/"},"modified":"2001-01-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-01T12:00:00","slug":"2001-01-01-singapore-hindus-celebrate-thai-pusam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/01\/01\/2001-01-01-singapore-hindus-celebrate-thai-pusam\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Hindus Celebrate Thai Pusam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/0,,71-59392,00.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE, December 30, 2000: The Times of London reporter Fiona Terry winced when she met Hindu devotees at a Singapore festival. She writes, &#8220;It seemed an ungodly thing to do &#8212; parade two miles through the streets of Singapore with spears through cheeks, hooks piercing the skin and shoes of upturned nails. Yet this wasn&#8217;t some inexplicable form of masochism &#8212; this was true devotion, a Hindu ritual of body transcendence in honor of the deity Lord Subramaniam.&#8221; This colorful display of courage occurs at Thai Pusam, this lengthy report goes on, a Hindu festival celebrated every new year in Singapore and Malaysia. The extraordinary pilgrimage with its mortification of flesh is the worshippers&#8217; way of seeking penance.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE SINGAPORE, December 30, 2000: The Times of London reporter Fiona Terry winced when she met Hindu devotees,&#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-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","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=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}