{"id":3080,"date":"2007-03-13T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2007-03-13T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T20:58:12","slug":"festival-of-colors-holi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3080","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Colors (Holi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/krimg4.jpg'  align=\"left\" alt='' \/><strong>By Caru das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork invites all members of the public to celebrate the festival of Holi on Saturday, March 24th, from 4 pm.<\/p>\n<p>    In India Holi announces the arrival of spring and the passing of winter. It is a festival that breathes an atmosphere of social merriment. People bury their hatchets with a warm embrace and throw their worries to the wind. Every nook and corner presents a typically colorful sight. Young and old alike are covered with colors (red, green, yellow, blue, black and silver). People in small groups are seen singing, dancing and throwing colors on each other.<\/p>\n<p>    Cultural elements of the festival will include two dramas, entitled &#8220;The Scholar &#038; the Boatman&#8221; as well as The Transformation of Valmiki&#8221;. Nalini Landar, Russian National Belly Dance Champion of 2003, will perform several selctions of classical Indian kathak dance.<\/p>\n<p>     A BYU student who has attended for several years, Stephanie Christiansen says, &#8220;I love the gaiety, the hilarity of it all! An unforgettable way to usher in the spring season. Even first time comers swing into the spirit of the event, as white and dark skin colors quickly disappear under layers of green, red, purple, and blue powders. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    Anjali Mangala said.  &#8220;I haven&#8217;t been back to India for a dozen years, but today throwing the colors, a flood of memories transported me back to my hometown and my childhood.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>    Those who would rather observe than participate in the throwing of the colors may stay indoors and watch from the windows, or the upper floor verandah. The temple will supply bags of safe, non stain dry colors for $ 1 each. For safety and health reasons, none should bring colors from outside.<\/p>\n<p>    Admission to the event is free of charge. To help the temple construction fund, a suggested $ 6.00 donation will be asked for the full course meals served from a buffet table laden with twenty or thirty preparations. Attendees are invited bring a fruit or flowers or a cooked vegetarian offering to further augment the huge feast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kri3mg4.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Caru das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork invites all members of the public to celebrate the festival of Holi on Saturday, March 24th. In India Holi announces the arrival of spring and the passing of winter. It is a festival that breathes an atmosphere of social merriment.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announce","category-caru-das"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}