{"id":8541,"date":"2009-12-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/10\/india-to-ban-baby-blessing-festival\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T12:00:00","slug":"india-to-ban-baby-blessing-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/10\/india-to-ban-baby-blessing-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"India To Ban Baby-Blessing Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/News\/Latest%2BNews\/Asia\/Story\/A1Story20091204-184043.html\">www.asiaone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGALORE, INDIA, December 4, 2009: Every first week of December in a rural district in the state of Karnataka, villagers drop babies from the top of a 30-foot Hindu temple onto a blanket held by a crowd below, amid dancing and singing.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people assembled on Wednesday at the temple near Indi in the district of Bijapur to witness the event, which is said to confer good health and a long life on the baby and bring prosperity to the family.<\/p>\n<p>But the centuries-old tradition has fallen foul of local authorities. &#8220;As I am new to the district, I did not know about the unusual ritual, which is terrifying for babies,&#8221; Bijapur deputy commissioner R. Shantharaj told AFP by phone from the district, 373 miles from state capital Bangalore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.asiaone.com BANGALORE, INDIA, December 4, 2009: Every first week of December in a rural district in the state 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-8541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541","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=8541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}