{"id":7487,"date":"2009-02-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/19\/micro-painter-creates-tiniest-hanuman-chalisa\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:00:00","slug":"micro-painter-creates-tiniest-hanuman-chalisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/19\/micro-painter-creates-tiniest-hanuman-chalisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-Painter Creates Tiniest Hanuman Chalisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/Print.aspx?Id=7945a8c6-f266-48d5-b116-3c8e47f44c40\">www.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">VARANASI, INDIA, February 17, 2009:  The world&#8217;s smallest Hanuman Chalisa, a single centimeter square, will be offered for sale at the eight-day Industrial Handicraft Fair in Varanasi on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakhtakiya Hanuman Chalisa, a eulogy to the monkey-god worshiped by Hindus in northern India, comprises 45 pages and 22 pictures of different forms of Hanuman. The micro version contains everything that its pocket-sized cousin has.<\/p>\n<p>Its creator, 57-year-old Raj Kumar Verma from Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, has practiced micro-painting for 33 years. &#8220;One has to use a magnifying glass to read it,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;But this Hanuman Chalisa, which took six months last year to come into existence, will one day have an ardent Hanuman devotee buyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hindustantimes.com VARANASI, INDIA, February 17, 2009: The world&#8217;s smallest Hanuman Chalisa, a single centimeter square, will be offered for sale,&#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-7487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487","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=7487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}