{"id":45,"date":"2011-11-03T18:33:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-11-03T18:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:33:40","slug":"ganges-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/2011\/11\/03\/ganges-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganges River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hindus belief that the Ganges River is Mother Ganga seems very strange to me.\u00a0 It is hard for me to understand that they worship an objuect such as a river.\u00a0 The river symbolizes life and they make offerings to the river itself.\u00a0 For Hinduism Mother Ganga is the center of their religious world.\u00a0 The pilgrimages\u00a0that the Hindu people take all involve a circular journey and involve the Ganges River.\u00a0 These pilgrimages involve the idea of Mandala, circular world view, by having the pilgrims take a circular path to represent how their lives are not linear.\u00a0 There are five different paths that pilgrims can take that have five different lengths.\u00a0 In the two shortest pilgrimages there are 72 different shrines that are visited.\u00a0 This number must symbolize an important concept in the Hindu religion.\u00a0 Hinduism has very interesting ideas in the religion and the Ganges River is a large base of the religion and is as important as Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindus belief that the Ganges River is Mother Ganga seems very strange to me.\u00a0 It is hard for me to understand that they worship an objuect such as a river.\u00a0 The river symbolizes life and they make offerings to the river itself.\u00a0 For Hinduism Mother Ganga is the center of their religious world.\u00a0 The pilgrimages\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/introtreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}