{"id":10473,"date":"2011-09-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/20\/canada-hindus-celebrate-by-river\/"},"modified":"2011-09-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T12:00:00","slug":"canada-hindus-celebrate-by-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/20\/canada-hindus-celebrate-by-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Hindus Celebrate By River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsorstar.com\/life\/Hindus celebrate river\/5386893\/story.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CANADA, September 12, 2011: Hundreds of Windsor-area Hindus gathered in McKee Park at the Detroit River Sunday, marking the end of Ganesh Chaturthi, a 10-day religious festival celebrating the Deity&#8217;s birth and his unity with the universe.<\/p>\n<p>For two weeks, Hindus all over the world offered prayers and offerings to Ganesha, a Deity in the Hindu pantheon that is widely revered as a remover of obstacles. The festival climaxes with the dissolving of a clay murti of Ganesha by lowering it into water. Paresh Pandya, a Hindu priest who watched over the proceedings, said this represents the deity&#8217;s immaterial form and a return to the elements.<\/p>\n<p>MP Brian Masse, who attended the festival&#8217;s finale, said the festival reflects Canada&#8217;s multiculturalism and acceptance of different cultures. &#8220;Celebrating outside like this today demonstrates what a diverse and amazing country Canada is,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CANADA, September 12, 2011: Hundreds of Windsor-area Hindus gathered in McKee Park at the Detroit River Sunday, marking the,&#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-10473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473","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=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}