{"id":17987,"date":"2015-06-20T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T10:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=17987"},"modified":"2017-01-07T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T09:54:44","slug":"world-yoga-day-lets-go-beyond-political-and-physical-posturing-and-is-yoga-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=17987","title":{"rendered":"World Yoga Day: Let&#8217;s Go Beyond Political and Physical Posturing and Is Yoga Hindu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-HT6UOA6MXpo\/VYVEFJaWChI\/AAAAAAAAQTE\/jOZwHAfKEO0\/s0\/2015-06-20_12-44-32.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qzMpjkhMic4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qVk0RgMA4aI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>BBC: http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-33153506<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-VNFbqHlmcy4\/VYVETq5kJXI\/AAAAAAAAQTM\/uhFxSq0r-R4\/s0\/2015-06-20_12-45-34.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Chaitanya Charan Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Massive preparations are under way in India to celebrate the first International Day of Yoga on Sunday &#8211; even as an unsavoury row has broken out over whether practising the ancient discipline makes one a Hindu, writes the BBC&#8217;s Geeta Pandey in Delhi. &#8220;The numbers are mindboggling, we expect tens of millions to participate,&#8221; Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is a huge yoga enthusiast and according to reports practices it daily, will be in attendance. Yoga has been practiced in India for thousands of years, it&#8217;s taught in many schools and individuals or groups can be seen doing asanas (yoga poses) in parks across the country. <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17987","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=17987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35212,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17987\/revisions\/35212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}