{"id":10696,"date":"2011-12-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/13\/first-hindu-chaplain-in-us-military-is-groundbreaking\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T12:00:00","slug":"first-hindu-chaplain-in-us-military-is-groundbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/13\/first-hindu-chaplain-in-us-military-is-groundbreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"First Hindu Chaplain in US Military is &#8220;Groundbreaking&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-16099481\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US, December 11, 2011 (BBC America): Returning service members from Iraq and Afghanistan often struggle with readjusting to civilian life, health issues, and guilt. Until recently, the 1,000 or so Hindus serving in the US military &#8211; and their families &#8211; lacked a military confidant who understood their religion and culture. But now Captain Pratima Dharm has been appointed as the US military&#8217;s first Hindu chaplain.<\/p>\n<p>She says her position is significant not just to her military congregation, but also to the religion&#8217;s one billion global followers. To see a well-done video about this major change in America&#8217;s religious landscape, click on &#8220;source&#8221; above; to read a full story about Captain Dharm on the next issue of Hinduism Today, click <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/rvzEmN\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source US, December 11, 2011 (BBC America): Returning service members from Iraq and Afghanistan often struggle with readjusting to civilian,&#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-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696","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=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}