{"id":7207,"date":"2008-11-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/09\/indian-congressman-says-hanuman-helped-obama\/"},"modified":"2008-11-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T12:00:00","slug":"indian-congressman-says-hanuman-helped-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/09\/indian-congressman-says-hanuman-helped-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Congressman Says Hanuman Helped Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Delhi\/Congressman_Bhama_says_Hanuman_helped_Obama\/articleshow\/3678612.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 5, 2008: Indian congressman Brij Mohan Bhama credits Barack Obama&#8217;s election to Lord Hanuman. &#8220;It was the magic of Pawanputra Hanuman that did it all,&#8221; asserts a convinced Bhama, who is also an Obama fan. &#8220;It is the triumph of Lord Hanuman on the soils of America.&#8221; The president-elect of the US said earlier this year that he carries a &#8220;Monkey God&#8221; talisman.<\/p>\n<p>In July this year, Bhama created waves of excitement when he organized a special puja by 12 priests at the Sankat Mochan Dham on Pusa Road for Obama&#8217;s victory. At the time, Obama was sent a two-foot high, gold-plated Deity of Hanuman.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 5, 2008: Indian congressman Brij Mohan Bhama credits Barack Obama&#8217;s election to Lord Hanuman. &#8220;It,&#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-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","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=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}