{"id":6687,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/17\/hinduism-book-seeks-to-dispel-myths\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","slug":"hinduism-book-seeks-to-dispel-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/17\/hinduism-book-seeks-to-dispel-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinduism Book Seeks To Dispel Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/mar\/14spec.htm\">www.rediff.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">INDIA, March 14, 2008: As many Hindu parents in America and Canada know too well, you just cannot be prepared for all the questions your child has to face in the school. Questions like: Why do Hindus worship the cow? Are Hindu Gods always married to many women? Why do Hindus worship icons?<\/p>\n<p>The parents&#8217; answers and explanations are often not satisfactory to the children &#8212; or, for that matter, to the parents themselves. Now, parents and children can turn to What is Hinduism? &#8212; a landmark book with over 400 large pages and nearly 1,000 illustrations that answers the above questions, and many more, with brevity and clarity. One of the book&#8217;s important achievements is in creating context that explains Hindu practices that are otherwise hard to clarify. One of the plus points is also its humour. &#8216;Hindus are not idle worshippers,&#8217; the book continues. &#8216;I have never seen a Hindu worship in a lazy or idle way.&#8217; <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.rediff.com INDIA, March 14, 2008: As many Hindu parents in America and Canada know too well, you just cannot be,&#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-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","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=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}