{"id":59157,"date":"2019-04-15T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=59157"},"modified":"2019-04-15T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T10:30:59","slug":"tharoor-sustains-injuries-while-performing-thulabharam-at-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/tharoor-sustains-injuries-while-performing-thulabharam-at-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Tharoor sustains injuries while performing \u2018thulabharam\u2019 at temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thiruvananthapuram<br>Congress  leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday suffered head  injuries while performing \u2018thulabharam\u2019 ritual at a temple  here.According to party sources, Tharoor who is aiming for a hat-trick  from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency, sustained injuries on  his head, which required six stitches.He also suffered a minor leg  injury after the hook of the weighing scale came off and hit his head,  they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Thulabharam\u2019 is a Hindu ritual in which a person is \nweighed against a commodity such as flowers, grains, fruits and similar \narticles in temples and the equal value or quantity is offered as \ndonation.Monday being the Malayalam New Year day Tharoor performed the \nritual at a Devi temple here in the morning before embarking on his poll\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>campaign.He was accompanied by his family and party leaders and\n workers, including MLA VS Sivakumar.While he was sitting on one of the \npans of the weighing scale, the hook came off and fell on his head, the \nparty sources added.He was taken to Trivandrum Medical College hospital \nfor detailed examination, sources said.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThiruvananthapuramCongress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday suffered head injuries while performing \u2018thulabharam\u2019 ritual at a temple here.According to party sources, Tharoor who is aiming for a hat-trick from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency, sustained injuries on his head, which required six stitches.He also suffered a minor leg injury after the hook of the [&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":59158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59159,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59157\/revisions\/59159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}