{"id":14390,"date":"2015-08-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/08\/03\/texas-hindu-temple-opens-with-world-record\/"},"modified":"2015-08-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T12:00:00","slug":"texas-hindu-temple-opens-with-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/08\/03\/texas-hindu-temple-opens-with-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Hindu Temple Opens with World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/story\/news\/local\/collin-county\/2015\/08\/01\/friscos-hindu-temple-opens-with-world-record\/31010765\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FRISCO, TEXAS, August 1, 2015 (WFAA): When you look inside the new Hanuman Temple in Frisco, North Texas on Saturday, you&#8217;ll realize why it was built. Thousands of Hindus, most of them living in or around the city, crowded into the 34,000-square-foot temple to celebrate its official opening. The Indian population in the region is growing. In Collin County alone, it has more than tripled since the turn of the century. &#8220;Look at the 10-mile radius around the temple,&#8221; said Temple Chairman Prakasa Rao Velagapudiand. &#8220;Seventy, 80, maybe even 90 percent of them have Indian background.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They celebrated the opening in spectacular fashion by setting a new Guinness World Record. After 24 hours of continuous chanting, the group set the world record for the longest chanting marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source FRISCO, TEXAS, August 1, 2015 (WFAA): When you look inside the new Hanuman Temple in Frisco, North Texas on,&#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-14390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390","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=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}