{"id":14178,"date":"2015-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/04\/17\/at-hindu-temple-in-hockessin-a-tour-of-india\/"},"modified":"2015-04-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:00:00","slug":"at-hindu-temple-in-hockessin-a-tour-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/04\/17\/at-hindu-temple-in-hockessin-a-tour-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"At Hindu Temple in Hockessin, a Tour of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2015\/04\/12\/hindu-temple-hockessin-tour-india\/25688535\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DELAWARE, U.S., April 12, 2015 (Delaware Online): From the brightly colored costumes to the traditional music to the jangling ankle bracelets worn by many dancers, a small portion of Delaware was taken on a tour of Indian culture Saturday. Nearly 500 people attended the event, called Maha Shakthi, at the Hindu Temple of Delaware. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a feast for the eyes and the ears and everything,&#8221; said Chitra Vaidyanathan, who was attending the event. &#8220;It&#8217;s so mesmerizing and uplifting just to see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By honoring different Hindu Goddesses, the event recognized many different sects of Hinduism. &#8220;It gives the kids a sense of where you&#8217;re from and who you are,&#8221; Vaidyanathan said. &#8220;These kids very much belong to American culture, but this gives them a chance to know Indian culture, too.&#8221; The dance ceremony was also used to kick off more than a month of celebration up to Memorial Day, when the temple will recognize its 13th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source DELAWARE, U.S., April 12, 2015 (Delaware Online): From the brightly colored costumes to the traditional music to the jangling,&#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-14178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178","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=14178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}