{"id":10263,"date":"2011-07-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/05\/swastika-hindu-symbol-over-restaurant-door-offends-customer\/"},"modified":"2011-07-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:00:00","slug":"swastika-hindu-symbol-over-restaurant-door-offends-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/05\/swastika-hindu-symbol-over-restaurant-door-offends-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"Swastika Hindu Symbol Over Restaurant Door Offends Customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/story\/15013384\/swastika-hindu-symbol-over-door-of-filibertos-restaurant-offends-customer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX, ARIZONA, July 1, 2011: Paula Slamowitz just wanted Mexican food when she walked into her new neighborhood restaurant, Filibertos. &#8220;I was shocked,&#8221; she tells CBS 5 news, when she saw a red swastika symbol painted above the front door. She was immediately offended by what it stood for, to her. &#8220;Nazi-ism, Germany, Skinheads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The owner is Hindu, and spoke to CBS 5 news over the phone. He explained the swastika is a sacred symbol in Indian religions, dating back to 2500 B.C. It represents good luck, peace and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Slamowitz wasn&#8217;t the only customer to complain, according to the stores manager, Edgar Rodriguez. &#8220;I try to explain it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Sometimes they do believe me, and sometimes they just walk away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez admits even he questioned the symbol at first sight&#8230;which appears a few places in the restaurant, including behind the register, along with the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha. &#8220;I did my research, and I found out the real meaning of it. I think people should look it up and see what it really means,&#8221; said Rodriguez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PHOENIX, ARIZONA, July 1, 2011: Paula Slamowitz just wanted Mexican food when she walked into her new neighborhood restaurant,,&#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-10263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263","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=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}