{"id":8024,"date":"2009-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/16\/expressing-devotion-to-lord-shiva-with-a-54-foot-long-kanwar\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T12:00:00","slug":"expressing-devotion-to-lord-shiva-with-a-54-foot-long-kanwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/16\/expressing-devotion-to-lord-shiva-with-a-54-foot-long-kanwar\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressing Devotion To Lord Shiva With A 54-Foot Long &#8220;Kanwar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/n\/lord-shiva-devotees-carrying-54-feet-long-kanwar-draw-people-in-patna-110262\/\">blog.taragana.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PATNA, INDIA, July 15, 2009: A group of &#8220;kanwarias&#8221;, devotees of Lord Shiva, are drawing wide public attention for carrying a 54-feet long kanwar &#8211;a wooden carrier fitted with water pots on both ends of the pole &#8212; in Patna city.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of devotees take an arduous on-foot religious journey to express their devotion for Lord Shiva in the Hindu month of Shravan or Monsoon month (mid June to July).<\/p>\n<p>Normally, as per the ritual, a devotee is expected to carry one kanwar on behalf of his family. But, this time, a family and their friends, a total of 18 people,  are carrying the long kanwar. They say are praying for the well-being of their family and all people. They will traverse hundreds of kilometres to reach the holy town of Badrinath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: blog.taragana.com PATNA, INDIA, July 15, 2009: A group of &#8220;kanwarias&#8221;, devotees of Lord Shiva, are drawing wide public attention,&#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-8024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024","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=8024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}