{"id":307682,"date":"2019-01-02T04:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T04:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307682"},"modified":"2019-01-02T04:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T04:42:19","slug":"two-women-below-50-claims-to-have-enter-sabarimala-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/two-women-below-50-claims-to-have-enter-sabarimala-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Two women below 50 claims to have enter Sabarimala temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303361 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-696x438.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-667x420.jpg 667w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala.jpg 974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two women devotees, below 50 have claimed to have entered the Sabarimala temple in Kerala on Wednesday after the temple was opened to women between the age group of 10-50 following the Supreme Court verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The women are the first to enter the Sabarimala temple after the Supreme Court had last year lifted the ban on entry of women of all ages to offer prayers at the shrine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bindu and Kanakdurga in their 40s entered and offered prayers at shrine on Wednesday. They were accompanied by small group of police personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both began their climb towards the abode of Lord Ayyappa at midnight and reached the shrine at around 3.45 am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The two women had earlier tried to climb up to Sabarimala in the month of December but had been blocked by massive protests.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two women devotees, below 50 have claimed to have entered the Sabarimala temple in Kerala on Wednesday after the temple was opened to women between the age group of 10-50 following the Supreme Court verdict. The women are the first to enter the Sabarimala temple after the Supreme Court had last year lifted the ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[466,3926],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307682"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307683,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307682\/revisions\/307683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}