{"id":7354,"date":"2009-01-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/05\/with-students-demonstration-protests-continue-at-pashupatinath\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T12:00:00","slug":"with-students-demonstration-protests-continue-at-pashupatinath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/05\/with-students-demonstration-protests-continue-at-pashupatinath\/","title":{"rendered":"With Students&#8217; Demonstration, Protests Continue at Pashupatinath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/001200901051926.htm\">www.hindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 6, 2009: University students angry at the government&#8217;s intention of appointing the head priests at Nepal&#8217;s most revered Hindu temple blocked traffic and threw bricks at cars in Katmandu today.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 200 students were demanding the government, led by the country&#8217;s former communist rebels, withdraw the two priests named last week to lead Pashupatinath temple in Katmandu. No one was hurt in the protest.<\/p>\n<p>The appointments were immediately condemned by other Nepalese priests, who said the government was interfering in religion and meddling with centuries of tradition. The resident Nepalese priests have since refused to take part in religious ceremonies at the temple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are protesting the government appointing their people to these respected positions and going against traditions,&#8221; said Pratima Gautam, a student at Monday&#8217;s protest.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hindu.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 6, 2009: University students angry at the government&#8217;s intention of appointing the head priests at Nepal&#8217;s,&#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-7354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354","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=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}