{"id":5973,"date":"2006-03-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/03\/21\/2006-03-21-texas-hindus-open-new-temple\/"},"modified":"2006-03-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T12:00:00","slug":"2006-03-21-texas-hindus-open-new-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/03\/21\/2006-03-21-texas-hindus-open-new-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Hindus Open New Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.courier-gazette.com\/articles\/2006\/03\/12\/news\/news03.txt\">www.courier-gazette.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">PLANO, TEXAS, March 12, 2006: Just months after a prayer meeting got the ball rolling early last summer, a new Hindu temple will be established in Plano this week. The final steps in the installation of the deity will take place from 8 a.m. to noon Sunday at the Sri Ganesha Temple at 910 W. Plano Parkway. &#8220;The discussion centered around how nice the group prayer was and how wonderful it would be if there was a local place of worship,&#8221; said Giridhara Gopal, a member of the working committee for the temple. After some research, it was discovered that the Hindu population is near 10,000 in Collin County. &#8220;The need was there. There was a common goal, preserve and promote the values, ideals, culture and philosophy of Hinduism,&#8221; Gopal said. &#8220;The decision was easy. It was decided to build a Hindu place of worship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.courier-gazette.com PLANO, TEXAS, March 12, 2006: Just months after a prayer meeting got the ball rolling early last summer, a,&#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-5973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973","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=5973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}