{"id":44578,"date":"2022-05-17T23:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/were-fed-up-with-scary-dreams-thieves-return-temple-treasures"},"modified":"2022-05-17T23:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:24:51","slug":"were-fed-up-with-scary-dreams-thieves-return-temple-treasures-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44578","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re fed up with scary dreams\u2019: thieves return temple treasures in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gang who stole statues from Hindu temple in India return most items, with note saying they had suffered nightmares<\/p>\n<p>A gang of thieves have returned more than a dozen idols they stole from an ancient Hindu temple in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a>, saying they had been haunted by nightmares since the crime, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the group stole 16 statues from a 300-year-old temple to Lord Balaji \u2013 an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu \u2013 in Uttar Pradesh, police inspector Rajiv Singh told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/were-fed-up-with-scary-dreams-thieves-return-temple-treasures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gang who stole statues from Hindu temple in India return most items, with note saying they had suffered nightmaresA gang of thieves have returned more than a dozen idols they stole from an ancient Hindu temple in India, saying they had been haunted by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44579,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44578\/revisions\/44579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}