{"id":129,"date":"2009-10-31T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T04:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/?p=129"},"modified":"2020-07-20T05:40:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T10:40:26","slug":"129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Benzaiten Photo Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BENZAITEN \u5f01\u8ca1\u5929<br \/>\nVarious Statues from Japan.<\/h2>\n<p>Origin = India. A river goddess in Hindu mythology, her Sanskrit name &#8220;Sarasvat\u012b&#8221; means &#8220;flowing water&#8221; and thus she represents everything that flows (e.g., music, words, speech, eloquence). Later adopted into the Buddhist and then Shinto pantheons of Japan, where she is the Goddess of Music, Poetry, Learning, and Art. She is also a Protector of the Nation and a Patron of Children. For many more details on Benzaiten, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/benzaiten.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A-to-Z Photo Dictionary<\/a>.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENZAITEN \u5f01\u8ca1\u5929 Various Statues from Japan. Origin = India. A river goddess in Hindu mythology, her Sanskrit name &#8220;Sarasvat\u012b&#8221; means &#8220;flowing water&#8221; and thus she represents everything that flows (e.g., music, words, speech, eloquence). Later adopted into the Buddhist and then Shinto pantheons of Japan, where she is the Goddess of Music, Poetry, Learning, and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bezaiten-benten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}