{"id":57,"date":"2008-09-26T08:23:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T12:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2015-03-18T01:21:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T05:21:28","slug":"tulsi-basil-the-sacred-sakhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/tulsi-basil-the-sacred-sakhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi (basil) the sacred sakhi."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsi (Basil) leaves are well known for their sacred and medicinal values.In Shri radhavallabh temple Tulsi (basil) is considered as a sakhi, thus it is never put in the bhog.If any devotee offers basil to lord it is placed in Shriji&#8217;s &#8216;charan kamal&#8217; the holy feet and then given back as parsaad.<br \/>\nIt is also believed that if one wishes to have it as parsaad, one will have to swallow it as whole. As chewing the basil is considered a sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsi (Basil) leaves are well known for their sacred and medicinal values.In Shri radhavallabh temple Tulsi (basil) is considered as a sakhi, thus it is never put in the bhog.If any devotee offers basil to lord it is placed in Shriji&#8217;s &#8216;charan kamal&#8217; the holy feet and then given back &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,80],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jai-shri-radhe","tag-basil","tag-tulsi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radhavallabh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}