{"id":13723,"date":"2014-08-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/08\/20\/chants-incense-greet-hindu-devotees-at-new-suntree-temple\/"},"modified":"2014-08-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:00:00","slug":"chants-incense-greet-hindu-devotees-at-new-suntree-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/08\/20\/chants-incense-greet-hindu-devotees-at-new-suntree-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Chants, Incense Greet Hindu Devotees at New Suntree Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/08\/15\/hindu-temple-dedicated-suntree\/14112111\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FLORIDA, U.S., August 15, 2014, (Florida Today): It was a long anticipated moment as dozens of people gathered in the warm glow of the rising sun this morning for the opening of the new $9.4 million Manav Mandir Hindu temple in Suntree.<\/p>\n<p>The morning ceremony began 8 a.m. at the sanctuary with devotees, including the temple&#8217;s board of trustees, gathered in front of the temple&#8217;s east-facing entrance and following the priests inside the main prayer area of the 11,000-square-foot sanctuary. Hundreds of people are expected to visit the temple throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The elaborate ceremonies &#8212; part of a three-day weekend of purification rituals, dancing and prayers to the Deities &#8212; began today (Friday, Aug. 15) and will continue through Sunday, offering guests and participants a unique view of India&#8217;s religious cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source FLORIDA, U.S., August 15, 2014, (Florida Today): It was a long anticipated moment as dozens of people gathered in,&#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-13723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723","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=13723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}