{"id":8005,"date":"2009-07-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/11\/company-removes-lord-ganesha-s-image-from-beer-bottle-apologizes\/"},"modified":"2009-07-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T12:00:00","slug":"company-removes-lord-ganesha-s-image-from-beer-bottle-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/11\/company-removes-lord-ganesha-s-image-from-beer-bottle-apologizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Removes Lord Ganesha&#8217;s Image From Beer Bottle, Apologizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samaylive.com\/news\/company-removes-lord-ganeshas-image-from-beer-bottle-apologises\/637789.html\">www.samaylive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 5, 2009: An American beer company has apologized for using the image of Lord Ganesha to sell beer. It has removed the image from its beer labels and from its internet advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Lost Coast Brewery had printed Lord Ganesha&#8217;s image on the label of their Indica Pale Ale beer, depicting Him holding one bottle of beer in his one of His four hands and another in His trunk.<\/p>\n<p>In an e-mailed apology, the company&#8217;s general manager and marketing director said they had not known the image was that of a Hindu God, but they realized the seriousness of the issue after receiving complaints from across the globe. &#8220;We apologize for hurting Hindu religious sentiments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.samaylive.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 5, 2009: An American beer company has apologized for using the image of Lord,&#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-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","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=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}