{"id":10024,"date":"2011-04-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/07\/nypd-confiscated-powder-for-colorful-hindu-celebration\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:00:00","slug":"nypd-confiscated-powder-for-colorful-hindu-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/07\/nypd-confiscated-powder-for-colorful-hindu-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Confiscated Powder For Colorful Hindu Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpix.com\/news\/wpix-nypd-holi-confiscate,0,49629.story\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK, March 21, 2011: Organizers of a Hindu Parade in Richmond Hill say the NYPD confiscated the ceremonial colored powder.<\/p>\n<p>Pandit Ramlill, one of the organizers of the Festival of Colors in Queens, said in the 23 years of the parade&#8217;s history, he and other organizers have never been so offended. &#8220;We exchange colored powder as a sign of Spring, friendship, and love every year &#8212; the N.Y.P.D. took it away for no reason,&#8221; said Ramlill.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD told PIX11 News that officers acted appropriately and were responding to numerous complaints that participants were throwing the colored powder on the street, not the designated park areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK, March 21, 2011: Organizers of a Hindu Parade in Richmond Hill say the NYPD confiscated,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}