{"id":15091,"date":"2015-01-15T19:41:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T19:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=15091"},"modified":"2015-01-15T19:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T19:41:29","slug":"bhaktivedanta-manors-book-distribution-breaks-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=15091","title":{"rendered":"Bhaktivedanta Manor&#8217;s Book Distribution Breaks Records!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-6Tu6-Ih7Ah0\/VLgXKYVr75I\/AAAAAAAAKwk\/kikxs0SK5bQ\/s0\/9ce218ab-deed-48fe-996c-5799d4700516.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Radha Mohan das <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Winter Book Marathon took place as usual during the month leading up to Christmas, when devotees were focused on the mass distribution of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books across the country. This year, a grand total of 500 devotees from the wider Manor community took part, distributing on the high streets, door-to-door, at \u2018Sacred Street Party\u2019 events, as well as to shops, businesses and personal contacts. An impressive 51,710 books went out altogether, which made it the most successful Marathon at the Manor for over 15 years! The highestscoring male devotee was once again Ananda Caitanya Das, and amongst the ladies it was Guru Shakti Dasi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2014 Marathon was truly epic!\u201d explained Sutapa Das, the Manor\u2019s Head of Book Distribution. \u201cWith the participation and united efforts of hundreds of devotees, we can see what amazing things can be achieved. The scope for book distribution at the Manor is unlimited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-sRWdX8HngL0\/VLgXWOys8zI\/AAAAAAAAKws\/7820DHlnoks\/s0\/2015-01-15_20-39-05.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Radha Mohan das <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An impressive 51,710 books went out altogether, which made it the most successful Marathon at the Manor for over 15 years! The highestscoring male devotee was once again Ananda Caitanya Das, and amongst the ladies it was Guru Shakti Dasi.  \u201cThe 2014 Marathon was truly epic!\u201d explained Sutapa Das, the Manor\u2019s Head of Book Distribution. \u201cWith the participation and united efforts of hundreds of devotees, we can see what amazing things can be achieved. The scope for book distribution at the Manor is unlimited! <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091","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=15091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15093,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/revisions\/15093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}