{"id":7339,"date":"2008-12-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/30\/priest-training-course-for-women-opens-in-pune\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T12:00:00","slug":"priest-training-course-for-women-opens-in-pune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/30\/priest-training-course-for-women-opens-in-pune\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest Training Course for Women Opens in Pune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/convergence\/ndtv\/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080077880&#038;ch=12\/27\/2008%209:51:00%20AM\">www.ndtv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">PUNE, INDIA, December 30, 2008: An institute in Pune is offering women a one-year course to train them to become purohitas, female priests. The response so far has been quite encouraging. &#8220;Seventy per cent of our batch comprises women, most of them housewives, who are doing this course to do a job of a purohita,&#8221; said Arya Joshi, Senior Instructor, Jnana Prabodhini, Pune. Swati Divekar, a qualified teacher of Japanese and French has enrolled because she wants a change in profession. &#8220;We do all the rituals with sincerity. We also explain to them what we are doing, and we are not in a hurry,&#8221; said Swati Divekar. About 19 pujas and samsakaaras are taught as part of the course. All of them are performed as per Vedic rituals.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.ndtv.com PUNE, INDIA, December 30, 2008: An institute in Pune is offering women a one-year course to train them to,&#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-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","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=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}