{"id":16753,"date":"2020-03-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/03\/13\/prince-charles-promotes-namaste\/"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:00:00","slug":"prince-charles-promotes-namaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/03\/13\/prince-charles-promotes-namaste\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Charles Promotes Namaste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oprahmag.com\/entertainment\/a31445532\/how-to-politely-avoid-shaking-hands\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ENGLAND, March 12, 2020 (Oprah Magazine): COVID-19, otherwise known as the coronavirus, was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11. And with health experts saying that one of the leading ways to contact the virus is through &#8220;shaking hands or kissing somebody who is sick,&#8221; it&#8217;s understandable if you&#8217;d want to practice caution when coming in contact with others, no matter how many of those hand-washing memes you see. But what about those situations where greeting someone is unavoidable&#8211;or when you just don&#8217;t want to be rude? There are alternatives to avoid handshakes, and a certain royal has been putting a time-tested method into practice.<\/p>\n<p>While attending public engagements earlier this week, Prince Charles was seen offering salutations to others with a namaste. It&#8217;s a traditional and respected Hindu greeting in which one places their palms together in-front of their chest and offers a slight bow. But it also doubles as an epically non-shady way to say, &#8220;No hand touching for me, please and thank you,&#8221; instead of straight-up dissing someone. But if that or namaste doesn&#8217;t feel all that natural, there are plenty of other ways to avoid handshaking if you&#8217;re worried about contracting or spreading the coronavirus. See &#8220;source&#8221; above for alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for an excellent article on the esoteric meaning of Namaste:<br \/>https:\/\/www.hinduamerican.org\/blog\/the-power-of-namaste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ENGLAND, March 12, 2020 (Oprah Magazine): COVID-19, otherwise known as the coronavirus, was officially declared a pandemic by the,&#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-16753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753","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=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}