{"id":13707,"date":"2014-08-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/08\/13\/flower-festival-colorful-hindu-procession-causes-a-stir-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2014-08-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T12:00:00","slug":"flower-festival-colorful-hindu-procession-causes-a-stir-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/08\/13\/flower-festival-colorful-hindu-procession-causes-a-stir-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Festival: Colorful Hindu Procession Causes a Stir in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pz-news.de\/pforzheim_artikel,-Blumenfest-Farbenpraechtige-Hindu-Prozession-sorgt-fuer-Aufsehen-_arid,503969.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PFORZHEIM, GERMANY, August 10, 2014 (PZ News): Many residents leaned out on their windows or balconies with their camera phone and many passers-by watched spellbound at the spectacle. A colorful and solemn procession parading the streets at the conclusion of the festival of the Hindu community caused a stir on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Along the Weiher, Joerg Jahn and Ratgeb roads the believers carried their Mother Goddess. This was the first time that the temple&#8217;s eleven-day annual festival ended with such a procession. <\/p>\n<p>More than 200 believers, mostly Tamils, some coming from afar, joined the procession and the ceremony, in festive dress, accompanied by music, drum sounds and the smell of incense. A spokesman for the Nagapoosany Amman Aalayam Association thanked the City Council for approving this procession, which has great significance and importance for their community.<\/p>\n<p>Colorful slideshow at &#8220;source.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PFORZHEIM, GERMANY, August 10, 2014 (PZ News): Many residents leaned out on their windows or balconies with their camera,&#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-13707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707","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=13707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}