{"id":8133,"date":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/17\/a-54-foot-high-ganesha-murti\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","slug":"a-54-foot-high-ganesha-murti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/17\/a-54-foot-high-ganesha-murti\/","title":{"rendered":"A 54-Foot-High Ganesha Murti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2009\/08\/18\/stories\/2009081850970200.htm\">www.hindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA, August 18, 2009: The youth of Gajuwaka intend to install the tallest Ganesha murti in the state this year. Under the aegis of Sampath Vinayak Youth, a voluntary outfit, over US$50,000 has been raised to engage artistes from Medinapore of West Bengal to make a 54-foot-high murti, to be installed at the Old Gajuwaka Exhibition Grounds. Five artists have been camping here for past two weeks; they are now working without rest to complete the giant task within the next four days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want people to visit our pandal instead of going to Hyderabad to see the tallest murti of the State,&#8221; says Mulli Siva, organizing secretary of Sampath Vinayak Youth. &#8220;We got the idea to install such a huge murti after seeing the pandal put up at NAD by Vizag Defence Academy &#8211; which was the tallest murti in the city last year,&#8221; he told The Hindu on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The murti was made of clay and dry grass. The painting work is next. The organizers say use of chemicals for the murti has been made minimal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hindu.com VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA, August 18, 2009: The youth of Gajuwaka intend to install the tallest Ganesha murti in the,&#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-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","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=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}