{"id":9364,"date":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/06\/toronto-area-hindus-honor-ganesh-during-annual-festival\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:00:00","slug":"toronto-area-hindus-honor-ganesh-during-annual-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/06\/toronto-area-hindus-honor-ganesh-during-annual-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Area Hindus Honor Ganesh During Annual Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/839865--toronto-area-hindus-honour-ganesh-during-annual-festival\">www.thestar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, CANADA, July 25, 2010: Perched atop an ornate custom-built chariot, the Hindu God Ganesh slowly circled his way around the Sri Varasiththi Vinaayagar Temple in Scarborough Saturday morning. Thousands watched reverently as a statue representing the deity was pulled along outside the temple on two ropes by devoted followers during the annual Hindu Chariot Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Temple officials say the chariot festival, now in its 11th year, is the most important of all annual festivities at Sri Varasiththi Vinaayagar and a significant event for members of the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu community within Canada.<\/p>\n<p>This year, as many as 20,000 people were estimated to have participated in the elaborate ceremony, which hosted a number of community leaders, prominent and distinguished citizens, and cultural groups in the Toronto area.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful photos can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.blogs.com\/photoblog\/2010\/07\/vinaayer-chariot-festival.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thestar.com TORONTO, CANADA, July 25, 2010: Perched atop an ornate custom-built chariot, the Hindu God Ganesh slowly circled his,&#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-9364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","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=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}