{"id":10502,"date":"2011-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/30\/hindus-gathering-in-kansas-for-durga-puja\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-gathering-in-kansas-for-durga-puja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/30\/hindus-gathering-in-kansas-for-durga-puja\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus Gathering In Kansas For Durga Puja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2011\/09\/23\/3162625\/hindus-will-gather-for-durga-puja.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, September 23, 2011 (kansascity.com): Next weekend, about 300 Hindus from throughout the Midwest will gather in Kansas City to celebrate Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the year for Hindus of the Bengali tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The scheduled events, beginning on Friday and continuing through October 2 at the Lenexa Community Center, will include worship services, cultural programs, feasting, family get-togethers and greeting exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>Primarily a religious service, the social and cultural aspects of this festival are also significant. For 15 years, the celebration has brought together ethnic Bengali families from Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Bengali Hindus worship Durga as the highest manifestation of the universal power of God, and the festival celebrates God&#8217;s overpowering victory over evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, September 23, 2011 (kansascity.com): Next weekend, about 300 Hindus from throughout the Midwest will gather in,&#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-10502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502","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=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}