{"id":9955,"date":"2010-01-30T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2010-01-30T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T16:34:40","slug":"the-golden-temple-in-amritsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=9955","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Temple in India ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/golden_temple_amristar_india-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9956\" title=\"golden_temple_amritsar_india\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/golden_temple_amristar_india-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"golden_temple_amritsar_india\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>The Golden Temple or Temple of God,\u00a0in the city of Amritsar, is <strong>the spiritual heart of the Sikh religion<\/strong>. Guru Nanak (1469-1539), the founder of the Sikh religion, a spiritual bridge between Hinduism and Islam, came to live and meditate by the peaceful lake. After the passing away of Guru Nanak, his disciples continued to frequent the site; over the centuries it became the primary sacred shrine of the Sikhs. The lake was enlarged and structurally contained during the leadership of the fourth Sikh Guru (Ram Dass, 1574-1581), and <strong>during the leadership of the fifth Guru (Arjan, 1581-1606), the Hari Mandir, or Temple of God was built<\/strong>.\u00a0 Like the pilgrimage to Mecca for Muslims, it is the devout wish of every Sikh to visit the Golden Temple at least once in their lifetime. On a major festival such as  Vaisakhi New Year,  held in the second week of April, Sikh pilgrims converge on Amritsar from all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Temple or Temple of God,\u00a0in the city of Amritsar, is the spiritual heart of the Sikh religion. Guru Nanak (1469-1539), the founder of the Sikh religion, a spiritual bridge between Hinduism and Islam, came to live and meditate by the peaceful lake. After the passing away of Guru Nanak, his disciples continued to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,28,463],"tags":[767,768,123],"class_list":["post-9955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic-site","category-monuments","category-temples","tag-amritsar","tag-golden-temple","tag-india","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}