{"id":300364,"date":"2018-07-14T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300364"},"modified":"2018-07-14T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:02:50","slug":"jagannath-rath-yatra-begins-at-puri-pm-modi-extends-his-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jagannath-rath-yatra-begins-at-puri-pm-modi-extends-his-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagannath Rath Yatra begins at Puri, PM Modi extends his greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.15pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300365 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jagananath-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jagananath-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jagananath-696x327.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jagananath.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/>The nine day annual Jagannath Rath Yatra has commenced on Saturday in Puri, Odisha amid tight security and fanfare . <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.15pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.15pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\">Lakhs of devotees from India as well as from around the globe have thronged the city of Puri to celebrate the festival, which is into its 141st year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.15pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.15pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\">According to senior officials, elaborate security arrangements have been made for the festival to go on smoothly, 120 CCTV cameras have been installed at different \u00a0locations , police officer\u2019s are positioned on the routes where devotees have lined up to pull the chariot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.15pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.15pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minster Narendra Modi extended his greetings on this occasion, \u201cGreetings on the auspicious occasion of Rath Yatra. With the blessings of Lord Jagannath, may our country scale new heights of growth. May every Indian be happy and prosperous. Jai Jagannath!\u201d PM tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nine day annual Jagannath Rath Yatra has commenced on Saturday in Puri, Odisha amid tight security and fanfare . \u00a0 Lakhs of devotees from India as well as from around the globe have thronged the city of Puri to celebrate the festival, which is into its 141st year. \u00a0 According to senior officials, elaborate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,2014],"tags":[3427,3621,2174,3622,3425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300366,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300364\/revisions\/300366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}