{"id":4336,"date":"2004-07-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/07\/04\/2004-07-04-two-thousand-devotees-depart-temple-event-barefooted\/"},"modified":"2004-07-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-04T12:00:00","slug":"2004-07-04-two-thousand-devotees-depart-temple-event-barefooted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/07\/04\/2004-07-04-two-thousand-devotees-depart-temple-event-barefooted\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Thousand Devotees Depart Temple Event Barefooted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/archives\/story.asp?ppath=%5C2004%5C6%5C29&#038;file=\/2004\/6\/29\/nation\/8322299&#038;sec=nation\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>SEREMBAN, MALAYSIA, June 29, 2004: More than 2,000 pairs of footwear were left at the Sri Bala Thandayuphati Temple in Jalan Yam Tuan here by devotees who attended a consecration ceremony at the 109-year-old shrine on Sunday. Temple president R. Thangaratnam said the devotees were unable to retrieve their shoes and slippers because of the huge crowd. &#8220;Initially we only expected 5,000 devotees but the crowd swelled to almost four times that number. There was a significant number of people from Britain, France and Japan, too,&#8221; he said yesterday. Thangaratnam said the uncollected footwear would be handed to charity homes. Seremban MP Datuk Hon Choon Kim, who was the guest-of-honor at the ceremony, said the temple, which was built by the Chettiar business community, would be promoted as a tourist destination. He said the temple was unique as the entire floor was made of granite marble and its architecture could also attract more tourists to the town. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceSEREMBAN, MALAYSIA, June 29, 2004: More than 2,000 pairs of footwear were left at the Sri Bala Thandayuphati Temple in,&#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-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","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=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}