{"id":44136,"date":"2014-05-17T23:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T23:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_narendra_modi_tells_indias_hindu_heartland_hes_doing_gods_work\/"},"modified":"2014-05-17T23:06:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T23:06:27","slug":"bloomberg_narendra_modi_tells_indias_hindu_heartland_hes_doing_gods_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44136","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Narendra Modi Tells India\u2019s Hindu Heartland He\u2019s Doing God\u2019s Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming Indian leader Narendra Modi told thousands of supporters in one of Hinduism\u2019s holiest cities that he represented a break from past governments after winning the nation\u2019s biggest electoral mandate in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work that god has put me on this earth for,\u201d\u009d Modi said yesterday on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, his constituency, after attending a prayer service at a temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and transformation. \u201cA lot of it is dirty work, but I am up to the task.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people threw rose petals at Modi\u2019s convoy as it made its way through the streets of Varanasi, with onlookers and security officials taking pictures. Earlier, Modi greeted supporters in New Delhi, where his Bharatiya Janata Party said it would nominate him formally for prime minister this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-05-17\/thousands-greet-modi-in-delhi-after-historic-india-win.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming Indian leader Narendra Modi told thousands of supporters in one of Hinduism\u2019s holiest cities that he represented a break from past governments after winning the nation\u2019s biggest electoral mandate in 30 years. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work that god<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44136\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,201,431,481,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-hinduism","category-india","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}