{"id":26692,"date":"2016-04-22T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/143214642296"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:37:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:37:01","slug":"oldest-24-hour-kirtan-festival-in-west-celebrates-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=26692","title":{"rendered":"Oldest 24-Hour Kirtan Festival in West Celebrates 17 Years&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o61dtiPYfE1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o61dtiPYfE1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o61dtiPYfE1sbj0vuo1_500-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oldest 24-Hour Kirtan Festival in West Celebrates 17 Years. <br \/>\nOver 2,000 people from the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe are expected to attend the 17th annual 24-Hour Kirtan in Birmingham, England from Saturday April 30th to Sunday May 1st.  Today,  it\u2019s a huge bank holiday weekend draw. But back when the event \u2013 the oldest 24-Hour-Kirtan Festival in the Western world \u2013 began in 1999, attendance was much smaller.  It all started with a group of Pandava Sena teenage youth, fans of the year-around 24-Hour Kirtan program in Vrindavan, India, which had been run by Aindra Das since 1986.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/9qYrIN\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/9qYrIN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/fb1b1dcca218c0ca6661178683dacd3b\/tumblr_o61dtiPYfE1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Oldest 24-Hour Kirtan Festival in West Celebrates 17 Years. <br \/>\nOver 2,000 people from the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe are expected to attend the 17th annual 24-Hour Kirtan in Birmingham, England from Saturday April 30th to Sunday May 1st.  Today,  it&rsquo;s a huge bank holiday weekend draw. But back when the event &ndash; the oldest 24-Hour-Kirtan Festival in the Western world &ndash; began in 1999, attendance was much smaller.  It all started with a group of Pandava Sena teenage youth, fans of the year-around 24-Hour Kirtan program in Vrindavan, India, which had been run by Aindra Das since 1986.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/9qYrIN\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/9qYrIN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39798,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692\/revisions\/39798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}