{"id":9404,"date":"2010-08-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/13\/amarnath-cave-lingam-melts\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:00:00","slug":"amarnath-cave-lingam-melts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/13\/amarnath-cave-lingam-melts\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarnath Cave Lingam Melts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeenews.com\/news645349.html\">www.zeenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JAMMU, INDIA, August 2, 2010: The naturally-formed ice lingam of Lord Shiva in Amarnath cave shrine in South Kashmir has totally melted, official sources revealed. &#8220;The holy ice lingam does not exist any more for this year,&#8221; official sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine, situated at a height of 13,500 feet, started July 1 and will end Aug 25. The number of pilgrims is expected to touch 600,000 &#8211; at least 100,000 more than last year&#8217;s arrivals, which was the highest. <\/p>\n<p>The Shiva Lingam, which at its best achieves a height of 12 feet, lasted just 32 days this year. The authorities had last year put a grill around the naturally formed Shiva Lingam, at the 3,880-meter high cave shrine, to slow down its melting, allegedly due to warmth produced from human activities in and around the cave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.zeenews.com JAMMU, INDIA, August 2, 2010: The naturally-formed ice lingam of Lord Shiva in Amarnath cave shrine in South,&#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-9404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404","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=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}