{"id":11276,"date":"2012-08-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/08\/24\/texas-youth-camp-a-success\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T12:00:00","slug":"texas-youth-camp-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/08\/24\/texas-youth-camp-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Youth Camp a Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indoamerican-news.com\/?p=8552\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RICHMOND, TEXAS, August 23, 2012 (Indo-American News, by Puja Chugh): I slowly removed my sandals and gazed at the white tables smothered in what looked like hundreds of shoes. As I approached the &#8220;sign in&#8221; table, I managed to put on an uneasy smile as I anxiously looked around for my friends. It was my first year at Hindu Camp and I had no idea what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>I was worried about not knowing enough about Hinduism to be included in discussions, or worse, what if everyone made fun of me? &#8220;What if I was supposed to know everything about the Ramayan and bhajans and aarti? And educations? What are those? Does that mean people can call on me for answers? I can&#8217;t have that. I cannot believe I just strolled into a Hindu camp knowing just what I was taught in grade school; some of these kids have been coming since 2nd grade!&#8221; These thoughts swarmed around in my head as I sought out a familiar face for comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I found that comfort sooner than I thought. As I approached the crowd of high school campers, little did I know that in this group I would find brothers, sisters, and life-long friends. Not only had camp rewarded me with new friends and memories, but it also revived my eagerness to learn more about my religion and customs. I had been given the opportunity to ask questions, seek meaning, and develop an understanding through deep conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Click &#8220;source&#8221; above for the balance of this interesting report.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source RICHMOND, TEXAS, August 23, 2012 (Indo-American News, by Puja Chugh): I slowly removed my sandals and gazed at 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-11276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276","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=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}