{"id":2420,"date":"2015-08-11T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2016-08-10T02:35:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T02:35:51","slug":"surreal-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/travel\/surreal-hinduism","title":{"rendered":"Surreal Hinduism"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 40%;\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"20%\" \/>\n<col width=\"80%\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>City:<\/th>\n<td>Amritsar, India<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Weather:<\/th>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">98\u00b0, sunny<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Site:<\/th>\n<td>Mandir Mata lal Devi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Activity:<\/th>\n<td>Confusion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This strange Hindu temple is the mother of all eccentric, sacred places. People are directed through this multi story labarynth of hindu iconography. We climbed through mouths, walked through tunnels and bridges. Lots of mirror and gold and neon light. The whole time their is chanting rising up from the main space below. It&#8217;s not a pretty place but it&#8217;s one of the stranger, more trippy places I&#8217;ve been to.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: none;\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081444130.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1439295382150.2021\" src=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081444130.jpg\" alt=\"In the mouth of a Hindu Temple\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the mouth of a Hindu Temple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: none;\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081444890.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1439295382055.057\" src=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081444890.jpg\" alt=\"little blue baby god\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">little blue baby god<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: none;\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081547893.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1439295382111.385\" src=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081547893.jpg\" alt=\"Hinduism\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hinduism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: none;\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081548206.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1439295382137.8784\" src=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081548206.jpg\" alt=\"praying, singing, neon lights\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">praying, singing, neon lights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: none;\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081548560.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1439295382083.447\" src=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081548560.jpg\" alt=\"Hindu temple. Lots of mirrored tile. \" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hindu temple. Lots of mirrored tile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: none;\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081548891.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blogsy-1439295382106.436\" src=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-Photo-20150811081548891.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander and the mirrored tile\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander and the mirrored tile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Amritsar, India Weather: 98\u00b0, sunny Site: Mandir Mata lal Devi Activity: Confusion &nbsp; This strange Hindu temple is the mother of all eccentric, sacred places. People are directed through this multi story labarynth of hindu iconography. We climbed through &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/travel\/surreal-hinduism\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day","category-india","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}