{"id":4026,"date":"2004-03-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/09\/2004-03-09-holi-celebrations-take-off-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2004-03-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T12:00:00","slug":"2004-03-09-holi-celebrations-take-off-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/09\/2004-03-09-holi-celebrations-take-off-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Holi Celebrations Take Off In South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE820040307133526&#038;Page=8&#038;Title=NRIs&#038;Topic=0&#038;\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, March 2004: South African Indians are taking a renewed interest in Holi celebrations after the tradition had almost died out in recent years. Many Gujarati Hindu organizations held small Holi festivals across the country, with the largest get-together at the residence of the Indian consul-general in Johannesburg where more than 200 guests turned the sprawling garden of the Consul General&#8217;s official residence into a riot of color. &#8220;I am very happy that the spirit of the festival is spreading to Johannesburg, Pretoria and other areas,&#8221; Consul-General Suresh Goel said. &#8220;I&#8217;m particularly happy about Holi because it&#8217;s a festival which sees people coming together forgetting all their differences. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceJOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, March 2004: South African Indians are taking a renewed interest in Holi celebrations after the tradition had,&#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-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","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=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}