{"id":93,"date":"2013-11-22T15:13:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T09:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:04:23","slug":"kerala-elephant-race-at-guruvayoor-on-12th-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/kerala-elephant-race-at-guruvayoor-on-12th-march-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala &#8211; Elephant Race at Guruvayoor on 12th March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thrissur-pooram-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Kerala Temple Elephants\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thrissur-pooram-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thrissur-pooram-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thrissur-pooram-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thrissur-pooram.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>A<\/strong><b><i>anayottam<\/i><\/b>\u00a0or the\u00a0<b>Elephant race<\/b><span style=\"color: green;\">\u00a0<\/span>at the Guruvayoor temple in Kerala will be held on 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March 2014, it is an annual event that marks the beginning of the 10 day long temple festival.\u00a0 There is a legend behind this race. Once when Guruvayoor temple did not have any elephants, it is said that elephants from the adjoining temples raced to Guruvayoor to get the idol on their heads. \u00a0The number of jumbos at the temple has since steadily increased to 62 over the years and every year this race attracts not just local devotees but also tourists from all over the globe in large numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aanayottam\u00a0or the\u00a0Elephant race\u00a0at the Guruvayoor temple in Kerala will be held on 12th\u00a0March 2014, it is an annual event that marks the beginning of the 10 day long temple festival.\u00a0 There is a legend behind this race. Once when Guruvayoor temple did not have any elephants, it is said that elephants from the adjoining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[26,27,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-93","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general-travel-info","7":"category-holiday-ideas","8":"tag-elephant-race","9":"tag-guruvayoor","10":"tag-kerala","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triptoindia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}