{"id":9505,"date":"2010-09-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/10\/happy-ganesha-chaturthi\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T12:00:00","slug":"happy-ganesha-chaturthi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/10\/happy-ganesha-chaturthi\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Ganesha Chaturthi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/modules\/wfchannel\/index.php?wfc_cid=44\">www.hinduismtoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KAUAI, HI, USA, September 11, 2010: Today Hindus all over the world celebrated one of Hinduism&#8217;s greatest festivals, honoring a God who is loved by all Hindus. <\/p>\n<p>During Ganesha Chaturthi, a ten-day celebration that culminated today, elaborate puja ceremonies are held in Hindu temples around the world honoring Ganesha, the benevolent, elephant-faced Lord of Obstacles. In millions of home shrines, worship is also offered to a clay image of Ganesha that the family makes or obtains. At the end of ten days, Hindus join in a grand parade, called visarjana in Sanskrit, to a river, temple tank, lake or seashore, where His image is ceremonially immersed, symbolizing Ganesha&#8217;s merging into universal consciousness. <\/p>\n<p>To know much more about the Remover of Obstacles and His festival, visit Hinduism Today&#8217;s festivals page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/modules\/wfchannel\/index.php?wfc_cid=44\">here<\/a> and download a pdf file. It is a full article that you can take to your local newspaper and ask them to reprint. Festivals are a great occasion to inform your neighbors about Hinduism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HI, USA, September 11, 2010: Today Hindus all over the world celebrated one of Hinduism&#8217;s greatest festivals,,&#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-9505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505","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=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}