{"id":8209,"date":"2009-09-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/06\/lord-ganesha-shines-in-mumbai\/"},"modified":"2009-09-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T12:00:00","slug":"lord-ganesha-shines-in-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/06\/lord-ganesha-shines-in-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Ganesha Shines In Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/living.oneindia.in\/insync\/2009\/ganesha-idol-mumbai-240809.html\">living.oneindia.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, August 24, 2009: When devotes celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai with fervor, several religious groups in Mumbai took pride in worshipping Ganesha murthis in makeshift temples, called pandals. At Wadala in Mumbai, a community Ganesha Puja has been organized where the murthi is believed to be the most spectacular of all &#8212; as far as material wealth goes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organizers, its gold ornaments weigh around 143 pounds while the silver ones are in the range of 550 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The murthi of Ganesha has been created under the banner of GSB Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Samiti group, a community of Hindus hailing from the coastal areas of Karnataka and Kerala. Their mother tongue is Konkani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: living.oneindia.in MUMBAI, INDIA, August 24, 2009: When devotes celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai with fervor, several religious groups in,&#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-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","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=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}