{"id":8189,"date":"2009-08-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/30\/in-hard-times-worshipping-lord-ganapati\/"},"modified":"2009-08-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:00:00","slug":"in-hard-times-worshipping-lord-ganapati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/30\/in-hard-times-worshipping-lord-ganapati\/","title":{"rendered":"In Hard Times, Worshipping Lord Ganapati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/2009\/08\/30\/stories\/2009083051160100.htm\">www.thehindubusinessline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, August 29, 2009: Piety towards Lord Ganesha, considered the remover of obstacles, seems to have triumphed over the economic slump, security concerns and swine flu.<\/p>\n<p>Donations at various Ganpati temples across Maharashtra are flowing. Cash and gold collections are expected to exceed last year&#8217;s numbers at mandals across the State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In spite of the recession, there is no fall in the number of corporations that have come up to sponsor mandals. Like last year, we have about six corporate sponsors,&#8221; said Mr Sunil Joshi, Committee Member, Lalbaugcha Raja Ganesh Mandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thehindubusinessline.com MUMBAI, INDIA, August 29, 2009: Piety towards Lord Ganesha, considered the remover of obstacles, seems to have triumphed,&#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-8189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189","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=8189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}