{"id":7997,"date":"2009-07-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/09\/lord-shiva-in-the-minds-and-on-the-chests-of-indian-youth\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T12:00:00","slug":"lord-shiva-in-the-minds-and-on-the-chests-of-indian-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/09\/lord-shiva-in-the-minds-and-on-the-chests-of-indian-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Shiva, In the Minds and on the Chests of Indian Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/epaper.hindustantimes.com\/ArticleText.aspx?article=28_06_2009_013_002&#038;kword=&#038;mode=1\">epaper.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 28, 2009: Depictions of God Shiva are a pop sensation for an increasing number of youngsters today in India, adorning their tees and the walls of their rooms, and inspiring local musicians.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fueling the business of a chain of small shops in Delhi&#8217;s Paharganj area. Here you&#8217;ll get everything from posters to t-shirts and bags with pictures of most Gods and Goddesses. Sonu, the owner of one shop, deals in hand-painted posters. He has a huge variety of them, in batik and velvet. &#8220;Shiva is the favorite with Indians,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but Ganesha is loved by Westerners.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: epaper.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 28, 2009: Depictions of God Shiva are a pop sensation for an increasing number,&#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-7997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997","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=7997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}