{"id":3405,"date":"2003-08-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/08\/16\/2003-08-16-many-facets-to-festival-of-india\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T12:00:00","slug":"2003-08-16-many-facets-to-festival-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/08\/16\/2003-08-16-many-facets-to-festival-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Many facets to Festival of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/metro\/gwinnett\/0803\/15indiafest.html\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>ATLANTA, USA, August 15, 2003: The annual Festival of India in Atlanta was inaugurated by the former U.N. ambassador, Andrew Young, on August 15, 2003. The three-day affair is expected to draw thousands of people from nearby cities and states. The Festival of India, considered the flagship event for metro Atlanta&#8217;s 50,000 Indian-Americans, also serves to &#8220;showcase its culture, heritage, cuisine, music, dance and more to the American mainstream as well as [Indian-American] youngsters who are born in this country,&#8221; said Narsi L. Narasimhan of Chamblee. &#8220;It&#8217;s a wonderful way to celebrate the Independence Day [Aug. 15] of India &#8212; the largest democracy in the world &#8212; in America, the strongest democracy in the world.&#8221; Visit www.iaca.info for a complete listing of Festival of India events and fees.<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceATLANTA, USA, August 15, 2003: The annual Festival of India in Atlanta was inaugurated by the former U.N. ambassador, Andrew,&#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-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","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=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}