{"id":12973,"date":"2014-06-26T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12727"},"modified":"2014-10-08T19:23:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T19:23:55","slug":"watch-hare-krishnas-take-over-the-streets-with-some-massive-chariots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12973","title":{"rendered":"Watch Hare Krishnas Take Over the Streets With Some Massive Chariots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/201406263uRYeA0J.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/98352922?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"335\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not since the <a href=\"http:\/\/bedfordandbowery.com\/2014\/05\/dancin-in-the-street-the-dance-parade-waltzed-into-town\/\">Festival of Colors<\/a> have we seen anything quite this, well, colorful: on Saturday, the 39th annual Parade&nbsp;of Chariots brought thousands of Hare Krishna devotees \u2014 and three giant chariots \u2014 into the streets of Fifth Avenue for a parade that ended with &nbsp;a&nbsp;jamboree in Washington Square Park.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-31460\"><\/span><br \/>\nThis&nbsp;stateside version of the annual&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">festival of Ratha Yatra \u2013<\/span>&nbsp;in which a trio of&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vaishnava-Hindu<\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">deities are removed from&nbsp;an Indian temple and taken for a spin&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<\/span>was put on by the&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">International Society for Krishna Consciousness, which was born&nbsp;in the East Village in 1966. That\u2019s when Indian guru&nbsp;A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada held what\u2019s said to be the first outdoor chanting session in the U.S., near an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/tompkinssquarepark\/highlights\/10823\">elm tree<\/a> in Tompkins Square Park. (Naturally, Allen Ginsberg was in attendance.)&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Watch our video of the Parade of Chariots to hear&nbsp;the&nbsp;words that were chanted on that day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/bedfordandbowery.com\/2014\/06\/watch-hare-kirshnas-take-over-the-streets-with-some-massive-chariots\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/201406263uRYeA0J.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src= \"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-06-26_17-22-20.jpg\"\/><strong>By John Cathcart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Not since the Festival of Colors have we seen anything quite this, well, colorful: on Saturday, the 39th annual Parade of Chariots brought thousands of Hare Krishna devotees \u2014 and three giant chariots \u2014 into the streets of Fifth Avenue for a parade that ended with  a jamboree in Washington Square Park.<!--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-12973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973","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=12973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13490,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions\/13490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}