{"id":6493,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-sacred-tooth\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","slug":"the-sacred-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-sacred-tooth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacred Tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-inch long discolored eyetooth is reverenced by 400 million Buddhists as the most sacred object on earth.  The tooth is supposed to have been reclaimed from Buddha&#8217;s funeral pyre in 543 B.C. and was brought to Ceylon 800 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Today the tooth sets upon a golden lotus in the glorious temple of the tooth in Kandy, Ceylon.  It is surrounded by rubies and tons of flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Each year a hundred thousand faithful Buddhists come from many countries to gaze at the sacred tooth.  They bring gifts of gold, silver and jewels to place within the temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-inch long discolored eyetooth is reverenced by 400 million Buddhists as the most sacred object on earth. The tooth is supposed to have been reclaimed from Buddha&#8217;s funeral pyre in 543 B.C. and was brought to Ceylon 800 years later. Today the tooth sets upon a golden lotus in the glorious temple of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1486,895,1904],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}