{"id":12685,"date":"2014-06-16T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T07:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2014-10-08T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:07:42","slug":"thousands-turn-out-to-see-festival-of-chariots-procession-in-west-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12685","title":{"rendered":"Thousands turn out to see Festival of Chariots procession in west London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/incoming\/article9538631.ece\/alternates\/w1024\/Chariots.jpg\"  width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/incoming\/article9538630.ece\/alternates\/w1024\/Chariots8.jpg\"  width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/incoming\/article9538632.ece\/alternates\/w1024\/Chariots2.jpg\"  width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/incoming\/article9538633.ece\/alternates\/w1024\/Chariots3.jpg\"  width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/incoming\/article9538634.ece\/alternates\/w1024\/Chariots4.jpg\"  width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/incoming\/article9538635.ece\/alternates\/w1024\/Chariots5.jpg\"  width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/incoming\/article9538636.ece\/alternates\/w1024\/Chariots6.jpg\"  width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/incoming\/article9538637.ece\/alternates\/w1024\/Chariots7.jpg\"  width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src= \"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-06-16_09-12-47.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Vibrant: the procession featured three huge, brightly coloured wooden carts being pulled by hand<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people lined the streets of the West End to attend London&#8217;s &#8220;Festival of Chariots&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The vibrant procession featured three huge, brightly coloured wooden carts being pulled by hand along the route from Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<p>Children and adults gathered to watch as the altar deities from London&#8217;s Soho Street Hare Krishna temple &#8211; Lord Jagannatha, Lord Baladeva and Lady Subhadra &#8211; went past accompanied by traditional music, singing and dancing.<\/p>\n<p>The Rathayatra parade &#8211; also known as the Festival of Chariots &#8211; was first celebrated in India more than 2,000 years ago, and has become a fixture in London&#8217;s calendar, this year marking its 46th anniversary. It is hosted by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, which featured participants adorned in jewels, flowers and body paint, ended with free vegetarian meals being distributed among worshippers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/thousands-turn-out-to-see-festival-of-chariots-procession-in-west-london-9538625.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/incoming\/article9538631.ece\/alternates\/w1024\/Chariots.jpg\"  width=\"600\" \/><img src= \"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-06-16_09-16-37.jpg\"\/><strong>By Nina Massey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Thousands of people lined the streets of the West End to attend London&#8217;s &#8220;Festival of Chariots&#8221;. The vibrant procession featured three huge, brightly coloured wooden carts being pulled by hand along the route from Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13395,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions\/13395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}