{"id":518833,"date":"2010-04-07T06:13:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12776"},"modified":"2010-04-07T06:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:13:41","slug":"nepal%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cliving-goddess%e2%80%9d-eyes-banking-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518833","title":{"rendered":"Nepal\u2019s \u201cliving goddess\u201d eyes banking career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12777\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 360px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12777\" title=\"goddess\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/04\/goddess-350x304-custom.jpg\" alt=\"goddess\" width=\"350\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Living goddess Chanira Bajracharya at her residence in Patan, near Kathmandu, April 6, 2010\/Gopal Chitrakar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even a &#8220;living  goddess&#8221; is sometimes faced with tough decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Chanira Bajracharya, 15, has been the  Kumari or &#8220;living goddess&#8221; of Patan, an ancient town south of Kathmandu,  for nine years, blessing devotees at the temple and riding in decorated  chariots 18 times a year during Hindu and Buddhist festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with her time as living goddess drawing  to a close &#8212; the young virgin deities retire on reaching puberty &#8212;  Bajracharya is contemplating a career in banking if she makes grades  good enough to study commerce or accounting.<\/p>\n<p>Last  week she became the first living goddess ever to take the school  leaving certificate examination, which was administered to her in her  temple, which is housed in her home.\u00a0 <em>&#8220;I  want to study commerce or accounting and be engaged in the banking  sector,&#8221;<\/em> she told Reuters in a rare interview, dressed in her ceremonial  costumes, her eyes rimmed in black kohl and a third eye painted in the  middle of her forehead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSTRE6360WM20100407\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at   RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living goddess Chanira Bajracharya at her residence in Patan, near Kathmandu, April 6, 2010\/Gopal Chitrakar Even a &#8220;living goddess&#8221; is sometimes faced with tough decisions. Chanira Bajracharya, 15, has been the Kumari or &#8220;living goddess&#8221; of Patan, an ancient town south of Kathmandu, for nine years, blessing devotees at the temple and riding in decorated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}