{"id":997,"date":"2015-10-12T22:11:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=997"},"modified":"2015-10-18T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T04:02:07","slug":"australian-art-gallery-to-return-2000-year-old-buddha-idol-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Australian art gallery to return 2000 year old Buddha idol to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-998\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"buddha-759\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With the Canberra-based art gallery giving its consent, the ASI has requested the Ministry of Culture to send an official team to examine the antique idol dating to the first century. Close on the heels of Germany returning an ancient Durga idol, an Australian art gallery has agreed to give a 2,000-year-old Buddha sculpture back to India.<\/p>\n<p>Source: PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Canberra-based art gallery giving its consent, the ASI has requested the Ministry of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[5,9,33],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg",759,422,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759-300x167.jpg",300,167,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg",640,356,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg",640,356,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg",759,422,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg",759,422,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg",759,422,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg",720,400,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/buddha-759.jpg",480,267,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}