{"id":7458,"date":"2009-02-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/10\/palani-hill-temple-honors-thaipusam\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:00:00","slug":"palani-hill-temple-honors-thaipusam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/10\/palani-hill-temple-honors-thaipusam\/","title":{"rendered":"Palani Hill Temple Honors Thaipusam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/2009\/02\/09\/stories\/2009020950530200.htm Back\">www.thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">PALANI, INDIA, February 9, 2009: Thousands of devotees witnessed the Thai Poosam holy car procession of Sri Periyanayaki Amman Temple here on Sunday evening. The procession reached Shanmuga River for a holy dip in the early hours of the day. Amid chanting of hymns, Lord Muthukumaraswamy and goddesses Sri Valli and Sri Deivanai were given a ritualistic bath in the river and taken back to the temple to inspect the holy car. Meanwhile, the temple staff decorated the car with multi-coloured clothes, flowers and festoons, ready to leave the temple at noon.<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;Harohara&#8221; chanted relentlessly, devotees drew the holy car on the four car streets. The temple elephant too pushed the car. The temple town wore a festive look as several devotees danced with kavadis and others played percussion instruments.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thehindu.com PALANI, INDIA, February 9, 2009: Thousands of devotees witnessed the Thai Poosam holy car procession of Sri Periyanayaki Amman,&#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-7458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458","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=7458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}