{"id":8190,"date":"2009-08-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/30\/state-clears-blueprint-for-shivaji-monument\/"},"modified":"2009-08-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:00:00","slug":"state-clears-blueprint-for-shivaji-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/30\/state-clears-blueprint-for-shivaji-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"State Clears Blueprint For Shivaji Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/msid-4934568,prtpage-1.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, August 26, 2009: The state government on Tuesday approved the blueprint for the proposed statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji in the sea off Marine Drive, and began the process of appointing a developer for its construction, although it has yet to secure clearance from the Union environmental ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The 321-foot-high monument less than a mile from the coast would not only top New York&#8217;s Statue of Liberty by a good 16 feet, but also be the world&#8217;s tallest. For now, however, its fate depends on coastal clearance.<\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: Shivaji Raje Bhosle (February 19, 1627-April 3, 1680), was popularly known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. His ideology of Indian Self Rule and subsequent expansion of the Maratha Empire was partly responsible for re-establishment of Hindu rule after various Muslim dynasties who ruled for several centuries.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI, INDIA, August 26, 2009: The state government on Tuesday approved the blueprint for the proposed statue of,&#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-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190","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=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}