{"id":9527,"date":"2010-09-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/16\/mumbai-showers-gold-on-ganesha-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T12:00:00","slug":"mumbai-showers-gold-on-ganesha-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/16\/mumbai-showers-gold-on-ganesha-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai Showers Gold on Ganesha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>source: http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/6503627.cms?prtpage=1<\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, September 6, 2010: Record prices have done little to dim the popularity of silver and gold offerings to Ganesha around the Chaturhi festival.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, a prominent resident of Veera Desai Road chose quiet anonymity even as his spectacular offering of a 35 lb. silver chhatra (umbrella) was unveiled at the Andhericha Raja Ganpati at Azad Nagar. The donor, a leading developer in the western suburbs who had his prayers answered, said, &#8220;I had made a pledge and I had to redeem it. Costs don&#8217;t matter. After all, it is He who gives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The richest Ganesha mandals in the city confirm that despite a giddy spiral in bullion prices, offerings of gold and silver continue to break previous records. &#8220;We have never needed to purchase golden or silver ornaments and embellishments for our temple&#8217;s Ganapati,&#8221; says Uday Salian of Andhericha Raja. &#8220;From necklaces and earrings to garlands, models of houses, babies and body parts, our God receives a cache of offerings in precious metal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source: http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/6503627.cms?prtpage=1 MUMBAI, INDIA, September 6, 2010: Record prices have done little to dim the popularity of silver and gold,&#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-9527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527","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=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}