{"id":428,"date":"2001-01-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/01\/19\/2001-01-19-makara-sankrati-comes-to-houston\/"},"modified":"2001-01-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-19T12:00:00","slug":"2001-01-19-makara-sankrati-comes-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/01\/19\/2001-01-19-makara-sankrati-comes-to-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Makara Sankrati Comes to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Vishwa Hindu Parishad Press Release<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON, TEXAS, January 15, 2001: More than 2,500 of Houston&#8217;s Hindu children women, and men, a record number, turned out for the annual Makara Sankranti Kite Flying Celebration sponsored by Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America&#8217;s Houston chapter members, Gujarati Samaj of Houston and Leuva Patidar Samaj. The event correspondents to Pongal in South India and this year coincided with Swami Vivekanada&#8217;s birthday. A famous kite festival occurs in India on this date.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Vishwa Hindu Parishad Press Release HOUSTON, TEXAS, January 15, 2001: More than 2,500 of Houston&#8217;s Hindu children women, and,&#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-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}