{"id":645,"date":"2019-10-01T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talesofcey.wpengine.com\/?page_id=645"},"modified":"2020-05-05T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:42:55","slug":"sammangodu-sri-kathirvelayutha-swamy-kovil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/destinations\/colombo\/attractions-in-colombo\/sammangodu-sri-kathirvelayutha-swamy-kovil\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammangodu Sri Kathirvelayutha Swamy Kovil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to the Hindu god Lord Murugan, the 19th century Sammangodu Sri Kathirvelayutha Swamy Kovil in Pettah was constructed as a place for faithful Hindu traders to practice their faith. The kovil still sports its original \u2018gopuram\u2019 (ornate entrance) with depictions of Hindu deities. Even today a number of chariot (vel) festivals are hosted by the temple, symbolizing the diversity of the city of Colombo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to the Hindu god Lord Murugan, the 19th century Sammangodu Sri Kathirvelayutha Swamy Kovil in Pettah was constructed as a place for faithful Hindu traders to practice their faith. The kovil still sports its original \u2018gopuram\u2019 (ornate entrance) with depictions of Hindu deities. Even today a number of chariot (vel) festivals are hosted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":571,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-645","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}