{"id":9745,"date":"2010-11-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/09\/cnn-shortlists-madurai-chef-for-hero-of-the-year-award\/"},"modified":"2010-11-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T12:00:00","slug":"cnn-shortlists-madurai-chef-for-hero-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/09\/cnn-shortlists-madurai-chef-for-hero-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Shortlists Madurai Chef For &#8216;Hero Of The Year&#8217; Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/life-and-style\/society\/article857017.ece?homepage=true\">www.thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BOSTON, U.S.A., October 29, 2010 : Narayanan Krishnan, a 29-year-old chef from India who founded a non-profit body, Akshaya Trust, to feed the homeless and destitute, has been short-listed by CNN for its annual &#8216;Hero of the Year&#8217; honor that recognizes &#8220;everyday individuals who are changing the world.&#8221; Mr. Krishnan is among this year&#8217;s top 10 CNN Heroes, who were selected from out of 10,000 nominations by a CNN panel comprising activists and philanthropists such as Muhammad Ali and Sir Richard Branson. <\/p>\n<p>The network will announce the &#8216;CNN Hero of the Year,&#8217; selected from among the top 10 people, on November 25. Mr. Krishnan and his team cover nearly 125 miles in a donated van. He provides hot meals &#8211; simple vegetarian fare &#8211; that he personally prepares, packs and often hand-feeds to nearly 400 people each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thehindu.com BOSTON, U.S.A., October 29, 2010 : Narayanan Krishnan, a 29-year-old chef from India who founded a non-profit body,,&#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-9745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745","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=9745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}