{"id":8034,"date":"2009-07-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/18\/preparing-for-ganesha-chaturthi\/"},"modified":"2009-07-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T12:00:00","slug":"preparing-for-ganesha-chaturthi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/18\/preparing-for-ganesha-chaturthi\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Ganesha Chaturthi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakaaltimes.com\/2009\/07\/02120036\/Ganesh-idols-all-set-for-their.html\">www.sakaaltimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, July 18, 2009: Even as the city prepares itself to welcome the God of wisdom, Lord Ganesha on next month, some murtis of the deity are all set for their journey abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Natraj Arts, the traditional murti makers here, have readied scores of murtis of varied sizes for shipment to London, Canada, Holland and Mauritius, around this weekend. &#8220;The Non-Resident Indian (NRI) devotees abroad prefer traditional clay murtis from India instead of the modern,&#8221; said Bhalchandra Deshmukh of Natraj Arts. &#8220;They demand simple murtis, usually replicas of famous temple Deities, as they want to impart the traditional Indian culture to their kids,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>This year, 100 to 125 small murtis and a 4-feet murti of Ganesh have already been booked each in London and Holland. Deshmukh said they were mainly focusing on eco-friendly murtis, which would easily dissolve in water. The British government had permitted immersion of the murtis in the Thames, according to Deshmukh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.sakaaltimes.com PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, July 18, 2009: Even as the city prepares itself to welcome the God of wisdom,,&#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-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","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=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}