{"id":12042,"date":"2007-01-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/01\/21\/pixar-animator-gets-back-in-touch-with-his-hindu-roots-through-his-new-book\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T12:00:00","slug":"pixar-animator-gets-back-in-touch-with-his-hindu-roots-through-his-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/01\/21\/pixar-animator-gets-back-in-touch-with-his-hindu-roots-through-his-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixar Animator Gets back In Touch With His Hindu Roots Through His New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2007\/01\/15\/findrelig.DTL\">www.sfgate.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, January 15, 2007: (HPI note: This article is part of the excellent &#8220;Finding My Religion&#8221; Series by David Ian Miller running in the San Francisco Chronicle which has featured several Hindus.)<\/p>\n<p>Krishna&#8217;s childhood nickname was &#8220;Butter thief.&#8221; Siva likes to get away from it all every now and then. Ganesha has a sweet tooth, so be sure to share your candy with him. And whatever you do, don&#8217;t get Kali agitated. These and many other fun facts can be found in Sanjay Patel&#8217;s &#8220;Little Book of Hindu Deities&#8221; (144 pages, Plume, October 2006). The book is a collection of humorous but reverent biographical profiles of 50 divinities, each paired with Patel&#8217;s illustration of the God or Goddess in question. Patel, an artist at Pixar Animation Studios, renders the divine beings in a brilliantly colored, modern anime style that works surprisingly well to capture the personality of deities that have been around for millennia. Patel, 32, whose work has appeared in &#8220;Monsters, Inc.,&#8221; &#8220;A Bug&#8217;s Life,&#8221; &#8220;Toy Story 2&#8221; and &#8220;The Incredibles&#8221; and on Fox&#8217;s Simpsons,&#8221; was raised by devoutly Hindu parents who immigrated to Southern California in 1980. To view samples of Patel&#8217;s book or to read an interview with the author, click on the URL above.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.sfgate.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, January 15, 2007: (HPI note: This article is part of the excellent &#8220;Finding My Religion&#8221; Series,&#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-12042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","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=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}