{"id":30378,"date":"2016-08-11T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/148788294931"},"modified":"2017-01-26T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:25:18","slug":"toronto-rathayatra-inspires-second-gen-leadership-madhava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=30378","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Rathayatra Inspires Second Gen Leadership. \nMadhava…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toronto Rathayatra Inspires Second Gen Leadership.
\nMadhava Smullen: Growing every year in size and popularity under a second generation team, Toronto Rathayatra has inspired younger devotees to take on more and more leadership in their community, and senior devotees to hand more and more to them.
\nSeventeen years ago, when he was only eighteen, just one second generation devotee, Kevala Bhakti Das, became part of the Rathayatra organization team. Today, the festival is put on by thirty-two younger devotees from high school kids to thirty-somethings, heading up twenty different departments.
\nThis year\u2019s Rathayatra, Toronto\u2019s 44th annual, was the biggest yet. It began with a \u2018pre-festival\u2019 on June 26th, giving the public a taster of what to expect three weeks before the parade.
\nTo read the entire article click here: http:\/\/goo.gl\/bpJ0Ux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Toronto Rathayatra Inspires Second Gen Leadership.
\nMadhava Smullen: Growing every year in size and popularity under a second generation team, Toronto Rathayatra has inspired younger devotees to take on more and more leadership in their community, and senior devotees to hand more and more to them.
\nSeventeen years ago, when he was only eighteen, just one second generation devotee, Kevala Bhakti Das, became part of the Rathayatra organization team. Today, the festival is put on by thirty-two younger devotees from high school kids to thirty-somethings, heading up twenty different departments.
\nThis year’s Rathayatra, Toronto’s 44th annual, was the biggest yet. It began with a ‘pre-festival’ on June 26th, giving the public a taster of what to expect three weeks before the parade.
\nTo read the entire article click here: http:\/\/goo.gl\/bpJ0Ux<\/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-30378","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\/30378","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=30378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38050,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30378\/revisions\/38050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}