{"id":13196,"date":"2013-12-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/12\/01\/florida-hindu-wedding-includes-an-elephant\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:00:00","slug":"florida-hindu-wedding-includes-an-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/12\/01\/florida-hindu-wedding-includes-an-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Hindu Wedding Includes an Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/members.jacksonville.com\/news\/premium-news\/2013-11-30\/story\/elephant-dancing-and-hindu-wedding-ponte-vedra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed: JacksonvillecomNews (Jacksonville Local News - Jacksonville.com and The Florida Times-Union)\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA, November 30, 2103 (Jacksonvill.com): The distance was short but the trip was long, with music, dancing and &#8220;I love Puja and Deepak&#8221; (the bride and groom) sunglasses. It took half an hour or more for Tiny &#8212; an elephant &#8212; to carry Deepak Dugar across a Ponte Vedra Beach parking lot Saturday to meet his bride. In wedding suit and headdress called a pagh, Dugar and Tiny inched along amid a crowd of family and friends waving hands and stepping high in a style of Punjabi dance called bhangra. Sometimes the procession that symbolized travel across India stopped altogether. The music and dancing never ceased.<\/p>\n<p>For more of this entertaining report of an Indian-style wedding in an unexpected place, click &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA, November 30, 2103 (Jacksonvill.com): The distance was short but the trip was long, with music,,&#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-13196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196","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=13196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}