{"id":7368,"date":"2003-11-07T21:21:51","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T02:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/11\/07\/blessed-be-your-bandwidth\/"},"modified":"2003-11-07T21:21:51","modified_gmt":"2003-11-08T02:21:51","slug":"blessed-be-your-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/11\/blessed-be-your-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed be your bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/39542000\/jpg\/_39542283_blessed_203.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">An artist has created a website offering to give internet surfers religious blessings online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Shilpa Gupta&#8217;s site lets visitors pick a religion and watch videos of computer cables being blessed at religious sites in her home city of Bombay, or Mumbai. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Users can put their heads against their computer screens before printing out a certificate promising happiness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Blessed-bandwidth.net was commissioned from the 26-year-old artist for the Tate galleries&#8217; Net Art site. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/39542000\/jpg\/_39542285_blessed2_203.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nA certificate can be printed as &#8220;proof&#8221; of the blessing<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Visitors are asked to choose between the Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Buddhist faiths and the site pledges to bring &#8220;instant peace and happiness&#8221;.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/arts\/3250203.stm\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist has created a website offering to give internet surfers religious blessings online. Shilpa Gupta&#8217;s site lets visitors pick a religion and watch videos of computer cables being blessed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}