{"id":13220,"date":"2013-12-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/12\/14\/kite-festival-all-about-indian-culture\/"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T12:00:00","slug":"kite-festival-all-about-indian-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/12\/14\/kite-festival-all-about-indian-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Kite Festival All About Indian Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacktownsun.com.au\/story\/1956091\/kite-festival-all-about-indian-culture\/?cs=1431\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTRALIA, December 6, 2013 (Blacktown Sun): Organized by Blacktown Shree Swaminarayan Temple, the kite festival raises money to set up special classes to teach children about Indian culture. Spokesman Tej Patel said Australian-born children needed to attend Indian language and culture classes to learn about their roots and help make them better citizens. &#8220;Shree Swaminarayan Temple keeps the spirit of Hinduism alive, through the festival, to nurture Indian traditions and culture in young boys and girls who are born outside India.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Patel said more than 5,000 people from across the country were expected to attend the 2014 festival. &#8220;We have received hundreds of inquiries from people and community organisations from Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, besides NSW,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we are holding the event at a bigger venue in Fairfield Showground instead of Blacktown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The temple hopes to raise about $15,000 from the event to also provide community services across western Sydney.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source AUSTRALIA, December 6, 2013 (Blacktown Sun): Organized by Blacktown Shree Swaminarayan Temple, the kite festival raises money to set,&#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-13220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220","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=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}