{"id":15980,"date":"2015-03-09T10:51:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=15980"},"modified":"2018-01-07T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T20:27:30","slug":"a-texas-sized-temple-with-room-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=15980","title":{"rendered":"A Texas-sized Temple with Room to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/2015-03-09_11-49-40.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"504\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-03-09_11-49-40.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-03-09_11-49-40-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-03-09_11-49-40-280x147.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:12px; color: #900e0e; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;\">From Back to Godhead<\/p>\n<p><!--[advanced_iframe securitykey=\"eecc28587071a557a4d7ab985109c85ec4091199\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/AGodhead.htm\"]<!-- --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\njQuery(document).ready(function(){\n\tsetInterval( function() { AutoiFrameAdjustiFrameHeight( 'auto-iframe', 50); }, 1000 );\n});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"auto-iframe\" name=\"auto-iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/AGodhead.htm\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"onload=\"AutoiFrameAdjustiFrameHeight('auto-iframe',50);\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-g_lLIqwy15Q\/VP17ESJcVJI\/AAAAAAAAMbw\/KXer8Q3qKNc\/s0\/2015-03-09_11-50-56.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Sarvabhauma Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Texas is a big state, but Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s disciple Dina Bandhu Dasa recalls how the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in Houston, Texas, began in a small way.  &#8220;When my wife, Akuti Devi Dasi, and I arrived in Houston in 1971,&#8221; he says, &#8220;Prahladananda Dasa was the temple president at 406 Gray St. It was a dilapidated two-story wooden building just outside downtown, in a very bad neighborhood. The plaster was no longer on the walls; only the lathe was there, and the wind used to blow right through the wood siding into the temple room. We felt the place was haunted.&#8221;<!--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-15980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980","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=15980"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55156,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions\/55156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}