{"id":5842,"date":"2013-01-26T15:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2013-01-28T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T13:50:05","slug":"the-silver-chariot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/the-silver-chariot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Chariot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/silver_chariot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5843\" title=\"The Silver Chariot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/silver_chariot.jpg\" alt=\"The Silver Chariot\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/silver_chariot.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/silver_chariot-113x113.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/silver_chariot-169x169.jpg 169w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/silver_chariot-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/silver_chariot-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The annual festival of Thaipusam saw thousands of Hindu devotees take to the streets of Kuala Lumpur last night. The 15-km procession of the golden statue of deity Lord Muruga on a silver chariot started around midnight and ended at Batu Caves just before noon.<\/p>\n<p>Photography Tip: To add some glow to the chariot, overexpose it slightly and apply either some greasy\u00a0 fingerprints on the lens filter or use a software haze or fog filter.<\/p>\n<p>Olympus OM-D, ISO 500, f3.5, 1\/30 sec.<\/p>\n<p>This Full HD video I shot takes you from the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Chinatown to L.A. (Leboh Ampang).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1DKlTWyiGY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The procession of the golden statue of deity Lord Muruga on a silver chariot started around midnight&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/the-silver-chariot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,378,563,8,25,519,9,449],"tags":[325,75,1209,1240,237,326,238,63,218,1269,1013,64,1012,323,1238],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-festivals","category-events","category-instagram","category-life","category-news-commentary","category-omd","category-photography","category-video","tag-batu-caves","tag-culture","tag-full-hd-video","tag-hd-video","tag-hindu","tag-hindu-festival","tag-indian","tag-kl","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-lord-muruga","tag-procession","tag-street","tag-street-procession","tag-thaipusam","tag-video-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5846,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}