{"id":3331,"date":"2003-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/24\/2003-07-24-temple-consecrated-near-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2003-07-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-24T12:00:00","slug":"2003-07-24-temple-consecrated-near-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/24\/2003-07-24-temple-consecrated-near-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Consecrated Near Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A19903-2003Jul7.html\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>LANHAM, MARYLAND, July 7, 2003: After twenty-five years of planning and fund-raising, tens of thousands of Hindus in the Washington area now have a completed Sri Siva Vishnu temple to worship in. The Kumbhabhisheham (dedication) ceremony brought devotees from near and far. Many pilgrims travelled from afar, like Sri Nivasan, a 28-year-old software publisher from San Antonio, Texas, who said &#8220;to see the temple is to see the Gods.&#8221; V.S. Raghavan, chairman of the board of trustees of the Siva Vishnu temple says, &#8220;This is a once-in-a-lifetime event for most Hindus.&#8221; Many called the temple &#8220;the fulfillment of a dream.&#8221; The whole community has a strong sense of pride about the completed multimillion dollar temple.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceLANHAM, MARYLAND, July 7, 2003: After twenty-five years of planning and fund-raising, tens of thousands of Hindus in the Washington,&#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-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","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=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}