{"id":523,"date":"2001-02-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/02\/20\/2001-02-20-new-york-times-insults-lord-krishna\/"},"modified":"2001-02-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-02-20T12:00:00","slug":"2001-02-20-new-york-times-insults-lord-krishna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/02\/20\/2001-02-20-new-york-times-insults-lord-krishna\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Insults Lord Krishna?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/02\/20\/politics\/20FAIT.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, February 20, 2001: This article which appeared in today&#8217;s New York Times may bring a protest response from Hindus. The article is on the proposal by President Bush to channel money through faith-based organizations for social service work. The article points out that this has already been going on for years and cites one example. &#8220;For almost 20 years, Hare Krishna devotees in Philadelphia have received millions of dollars in government contracts to run a network of services, including a shelter for homeless veterans, transitional homes for recovering addicts and this halfway house for parolees. The unusual collaboration between government agencies and a religious group that depicts God as a baby-faced boy with blue skin offers a glimpse of the challenges ahead for President Bush&#8217;s initiative to expand government support for social service programs run by religious organizations.&#8221; The disrespectful phrase &#8220;depicts God as a baby-faced boy with blue skin offers a glimpse of the challenges&#8230;&#8221; is likely to be found objectionable by many Hindu who venerate this form of Lord Krishna.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, February 20, 2001: This article which appeared in today&#8217;s New York Times may,&#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-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}