{"id":13775,"date":"2014-09-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/06\/ganesha-festival-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2014-09-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T12:00:00","slug":"ganesha-festival-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/06\/ganesha-festival-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganesha Festival in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/news\/11447072.Hindu_spectacular\/?ref=var_0\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, September 3, 2014 (Echo): Thousands of people turned out to the country&#8217;s biggest festival celebrating the Hindu God Ganesh. More than 10,000 Hindus descended on Shoebury&#8217;s East Beach for the Ganesh Visarjan on Sunday after a procession from Blackgate Road to a marquee on the beach. <\/p>\n<p>Worshippers enjoyed food, live music, singing and dancing. The festival ended with a water ceremony at 6pm, where statues of Ganesh were washed in the Thames Estuary and showered with flower petals.<\/p>\n<p>Worshippers came in coaches from all over the country, including Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham, with organiser Jay Gokani, of the Hounslow Hindu temple in West London, describing it as a great success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED KINGDOM, September 3, 2014 (Echo): Thousands of people turned out to the country&#8217;s biggest festival celebrating the Hindu,&#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-13775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775","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=13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}