{"id":9588,"date":"2010-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/03\/marking-gandhi-s-birth-with-community-service-in-america\/"},"modified":"2010-10-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T12:00:00","slug":"marking-gandhi-s-birth-with-community-service-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/03\/marking-gandhi-s-birth-with-community-service-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking Gandhi&#8217;s Birth With Community Service, in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/in-austin-marking-gandhis-birth-with-community-service-950744.html\">www.statesman.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, TEXAS, October 2, 2010: Hundreds of volunteers joined members of the local South Asian community Saturday for the city&#8217;s second annual Be the Change Day, a day of service and celebration modeled after observances marking the birthday of leader Mohandas Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p>The day is named for Gandhi&#8217;s famous quote urging individuals to embody the change they wish to see in the world. Gandhi, better known to those who follow him as &#8220;Mahatma,&#8221; or &#8220;the Great Soul,&#8221; influenced the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and South African leader Nelson Mandela with his ability to free India from British rule with nonviolent protest.<\/p>\n<p>South Asian Americans Leading Together, a Maryland-based nonprofit, organizes the service day annually in several cities nationwide. The organization chose Austin as one of its core sites this year because of a local effort to have a statue of Gandhi placed in Zilker Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.statesman.com AUSTIN, TEXAS, October 2, 2010: Hundreds of volunteers joined members of the local South Asian community Saturday for,&#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-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","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=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}