{"id":9769,"date":"2010-11-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-hindu\/"},"modified":"2010-11-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:00:00","slug":"what-it-means-to-be-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/16\/what-it-means-to-be-hindu\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Means To Be Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradoan.com\/article\/20101104\/OPINION04\/11040348\/1014\/OPINION\/Find+out+what+it+means+to+be+Hindu\">www.coloradoan.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, November 2010, by Maya Jairam: Many people wonder who exactly are HIndus and what do they believe, as well as what does it mean to be a Hindu? A study published in Newsweek that found a large number of Americans, upward of 65 percent of the population, agreed with at least one major Hindu belief or philosophy. This provided me with a glimmer of hope that such a pluralistic belief system as Hinduism could be understood in this country.<\/p>\n<p>With the growing interest and popularity of Hinduism, it is only fitting, then, that Fort Collins&#8217;s Human Relations Commission will be hosting a Hinduism panel, titled &#8220;Culture Classroom: Spotlight on Hinduism,&#8221;. It will feature local Hindus, as well as speakers from a national Hindu organization, the Forum for Hindu Awakening.<\/p>\n<p>The panel aims to address such questions as who is a Hindu, what is Hindu belief, as well as the actual spiritual science and principles underscoring Hindu philosophy that have long been misunderstood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.coloradoan.com FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, November 2010, by Maya Jairam: Many people wonder who exactly are HIndus and what do,&#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-9769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769","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=9769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}