{"id":10704,"date":"2011-12-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/16\/menorah-poinsettia-shrine-to-lord-ganesha\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:00:00","slug":"menorah-poinsettia-shrine-to-lord-ganesha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/16\/menorah-poinsettia-shrine-to-lord-ganesha\/","title":{"rendered":"Menorah, Poinsettia&#8230; Shrine to Lord Ganesha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/relationships\/Common-Holiday-Fights-and-How-to-Stop-Them\/2\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[HPI news: Christmas, Hanukkah and Pancha Ganapati together in a Oprah.com article about how to accommodate different traditions in a December 25 family reunion. The advice given in the article may not be particularly insightful, but the fact that Lord Ganesha&#8217;s December festival is mentioned in the headline is another sign of Hinduism&#8217;s new place in America.] <\/p>\n<p>USA, December 10, 2011 (Oprah.com): Last year, some married friends of mine, one Jewish and one Christian, got into a huge smackdown over a poinsettia a guest had brought to their Jewish party. (Poinsettia is a a small Mexican shrub with large showy scarlet bracts surrounding the small yellow flowers, popular as a houseplant at Christmas.) He wanted to display it. She did not. While they carried on&#8211;loudly&#8211;I got nervous and uncomfortable and ate all the cookies. <\/p>\n<p>Back in the days of limited tolerance, this was the traditional interfaith family blowout: Hanukkah dukes it out with Christmas. Now we all know better. There are a lot more religions and a lot more people in the world&#8211;like Hindus, who celebrate Pancha Ganapati in December, which requires a living room shrine. Add to that atheists. <\/p>\n<p>Teri Apter, PhD, author of &#8220;What Do You Want from Me? Learning to Get Along with In-Laws,&#8221; offers some advice. You may have to find a more radical way to accommodate everybody, such as celebrating one religious event in your house and the other at a restaurant or an in-law&#8217;s house. You might be able to find a compromise in the home, such as no Christmas decorations during the Hanukkah festivities. The key is creating your own family customs that everybody feels comfortable with&#8211;even if they deviate from the so-called norm.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source [HPI news: Christmas, Hanukkah and Pancha Ganapati together in a Oprah.com article about how to accommodate different traditions 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-10704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704","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=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}