{"id":8428,"date":"2009-11-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/07\/lord-ganesha-installed-at-tri-state-hindu-temple\/"},"modified":"2009-11-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T12:00:00","slug":"lord-ganesha-installed-at-tri-state-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/07\/lord-ganesha-installed-at-tri-state-hindu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Ganesha Installed at Tri-State Hindu Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courierpress.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/02\/tri-state-welcomes-ganesha\/\">www.courierpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEWBURGH, INDIANA, November 6, 2009: In a three-day ceremony in Indiana that concluded Sunday, worshippers gathered for the installation of a new murti of Lord Ganesha, the elephant-faced God revered for his wisdom, known as the remover of obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of three Hindu priests, the devotees chanted prayers, made ceremonial offerings and performed rituals designed to bring God&#8217;s presence into the 2,200-pound stone carving. &#8220;We all are so proud and happy today that this time has come,&#8221; said Tri-State Hindu Temple President K.C. Jain as he made remarks to the crowd. Many members had never witnessed such a ceremony and the event marks a milestone for the temple. <\/p>\n<p>Photos and video of the ceremony are available at the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.courierpress.com NEWBURGH, INDIANA, November 6, 2009: In a three-day ceremony in Indiana that concluded Sunday, worshippers gathered for 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-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","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=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}