{"id":5510,"date":"2005-08-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/08\/31\/2005-08-31-houston-hindus-celebrate-janmashtami\/"},"modified":"2005-08-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T12:00:00","slug":"2005-08-31-houston-hindus-celebrate-janmashtami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/08\/31\/2005-08-31-houston-hindus-celebrate-janmashtami\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Hindus Celebrate Janmashtami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindusofhouston.org\">www.hindusofhouston.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">HOUSTON, TEXAS, August 27, 2005: Five thousand Hindus, plus several hundred of their non-Hindu friends and neighbors, attended the 16th Annual Community-Wide Janmashtami Celebration at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on Saturday, August 27, 2005. Attendees, celebrating the birthday of Lord Krishna, enjoyed the colorful booths, watched a well-organized cultural program with music and dance, participated in the Raas Garba dance wishing it would not end, honored Akhil Chopra, and, in general, had a great time. Jay Aiyer perhaps echoed the sentiments of many attendees, saying &#8220;The celebration was wonderful and it is proof that our cultural and religious traditions are thriving in Houston.&#8221; Highly decorated police officer Muzaffar H. Siddiqi, attending the festival for the first time, commented on the atmosphere &#8220;charged with love, excitement, happiness and people dancing and celebrating in the most vibrant and colorful traditional attire.&#8221; He also mentioned that he enjoyed &#8220;an evening full of excitement.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Many of those attending stated that the cultural program was the best in many years. Notable was that the cultural program ended with a spectacular finale by Sreepadam School of Arts, a RadhaKrishna dance item by 13- to 21-year-old girls depicting prem\/bhakthi (love and devotion) and seva (service) of Radha and the gopikas for Krishna. &#8220;All the performances made me think of professional dancers&#8221; was the comment of Evelyn Turner. Another first-time attendee, Dale Andrews, said, &#8220;The cultural dances were magnificent.&#8221; Anu Upda said &#8221; It was a wonderful experience to see people, young and old coming together to celebrate Janmashtami which was enjoyed by everyone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hindusofhouston.org HOUSTON, TEXAS, August 27, 2005: Five thousand Hindus, plus several hundred of their non-Hindu friends and neighbors, attended the,&#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-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","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=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}