{"id":17421,"date":"2015-05-19T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T09:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=17421"},"modified":"2015-05-19T09:44:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T09:44:19","slug":"hare-krishna-festival-of-chariots-winds-through-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=17421","title":{"rendered":"Hare Krishna Festival of Chariots winds through Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-OeNCmxIipvE\/VVsFz9dxiaI\/AAAAAAAAPNc\/ahbbxsZxZ_0\/s0\/2015-05-19_11-43-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Cameron Atfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/queensland\/hare-krishna-festival-of-chariots-winds-through-brisbane-20150509-ggxxyk.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-5ZAVaTZgx_c\/VVsFICg4hLI\/AAAAAAAAPNE\/3vTXUkfnGmo\/s0\/2015-05-19_11-40-32.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-2-jZwz0redM\/VVsFejp26LI\/AAAAAAAAPNU\/nfHh9ohfJHk\/s0\/2015-05-19_11-42-17.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Cameron Atfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brisbane could almost have been mistaken for Bombay for a short while on Saturday as the Festival of Chariots parade made its way through the CBD.  A celebration of the Hare Krishna community, the Festival of the Chariots originated in Puri, India, more than 2000 years ago and has been celebrated in cities across the world since.  Central to the festival, as the name suggested, was a huge wooden chariot that was pulled through the streets of Brisbane amid music and dancing. <!--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-17421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421","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=17421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17423,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions\/17423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}