{"id":12276,"date":"2006-09-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/09\/11\/kumbha-mela-celebration-held-in-south-california\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T12:00:00","slug":"kumbha-mela-celebration-held-in-south-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/09\/11\/kumbha-mela-celebration-held-in-south-california\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kumbha Mela&#8221; Celebration Held in South California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/california\/la-me-hindu11sep11,1,3404758.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california\">www.latimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, September 11, 2006: Thousands of Hindus gathered Sunday at UC Irvine during a rare Kumbha Mela religious festival to help bring spiritual peace to devotees and to the world on the eve of Sept. 11. &#8220;We hope today&#8217;s celebration, held on the day before 9\/11, can bring positive energy and peace to the Earth,&#8221; said Rama Kumar of Orange, one of the organizers. In India, the festival is held at irregular intervals four times within each 12-year period and draws millions of devotees. More than 18 Southern California organizations took part in the festival, which featured a quarter-mile procession with an estimated 4,000 chanting marchers who carried pictures and images of deities and spiritual leaders from various temples.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.latimes.com IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, September 11, 2006: Thousands of Hindus gathered Sunday at UC Irvine during a rare Kumbha Mela religious,&#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-12276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276","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=12276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}