{"id":11057,"date":"2012-05-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/05\/27\/river-avon-possible-site-for-bristol-hindu-ashes\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T12:00:00","slug":"river-avon-possible-site-for-bristol-hindu-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/05\/27\/river-avon-possible-site-for-bristol-hindu-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"River Avon Possible Site For Bristol Hindu Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-18102020?print=true\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, May 17, 2012 (BBC): Bristol&#8217;s Hindu community may be able to scatter the ashes of loved ones in the River Avon in future rather than travelling to India&#8217;s River Ganges. The city&#8217;s new Lord Mayor Peter Main said providing a consecrated site was one of his first priorities. The Environment Agency and Bristol City council are trying to identify a site. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Main said: &#8220;It&#8217;s their tradition to scatter ashes on water and quite often now they&#8217;re flown back to India to do that. &#8220;They&#8217;re Bristolian, most are born and bred in Bristol, why shouldn&#8217;t they have somewhere in Bristol to scatter their ashes?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Parag Bhatt, from Bristol Hindu Temple, said it was difficult for a big family or elderly relatives to travel to India. Mr. Bhatt said there were currently about 10,000 Hindus in Bristol and the surrounding area. But he added: &#8220;It&#8217;s not just the Bristol Hindu community that&#8217;s going to benefit, it will be other communities like the Sikh and Buddhist as well.<\/p>\n<p>Scattering ashes in British rivers is not new. The River Soar in Leicestershire and the River Thames in London are already used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED KINGDOM, May 17, 2012 (BBC): Bristol&#8217;s Hindu community may be able to scatter the ashes of loved ones,&#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-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","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=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}