{"id":8014,"date":"2009-07-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/12\/unusual-offerings-for-an-unusual-sage\/"},"modified":"2009-07-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:00:00","slug":"unusual-offerings-for-an-unusual-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/12\/unusual-offerings-for-an-unusual-sage\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Offerings For an Unusual Sage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/msid-4769873,prtpage-1.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SARDANA, INDIA, July 12, 2009: This temple in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Sitapur district doesn&#8217;t have a murti or a priest, and devotees don&#8217;t make floral offerings. Instead, they offer liquor to the deity &#8212; a saint who lived in the area around 150 years ago and was said to enjoy his drink in the evenings and had a knack of clairvoyance and curing people.<\/p>\n<p>According to locals, the temple was built in memory of a saint named Khabees Baba, who devoted his life worshipping Lord Shiva in Sitapur. He is still believed to perform miracles for the devotees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Khabees Baba died in the Sandana forest while worshipping Lord Shiva. So, in order to pay homage to their guru, Baba&#8217;s disciples built this samadhi shrine&#8221; Shyam Babu Saini, a teacher and resident of Sandana, said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com SARDANA, INDIA, July 12, 2009: This temple in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Sitapur district doesn&#8217;t have a murti or a,&#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-8014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014","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=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}