{"id":31912,"date":"2016-10-02T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T08:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=31912"},"modified":"2016-10-02T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T08:12:03","slug":"the-conch-celebrates-its-5th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=31912","title":{"rendered":"The Conch Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-JQSWVG7-13k\/V_C_RusnOuI\/AAAAAAAAfSo\/cQwf-C5ouRk\/s0\/2016-10-02_10-03-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-c_4AeEUmPnA\/V_C_c0HlhKI\/AAAAAAAAfSs\/Vk-IiA8YbM8\/s0\/2016-10-02_10-03-55.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-6TkY3ib2hKw\/V_C_rq1YFKI\/AAAAAAAAfSw\/5zc7408QEkk\/s0\/2016-10-02_10-04-56.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-kEFWBqdkiEY\/V_C_4WucS4I\/AAAAAAAAfS0\/88xRCRnpFtM\/s0\/2016-10-02_10-05-45.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-j9a2C9BhZQc\/V_DADza3taI\/AAAAAAAAfS8\/fADTNdusQV0\/s0\/2016-10-02_10-06-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-hDXFPxmq6-k\/V_DARIwtpCI\/AAAAAAAAfTA\/L-ONqZ7Jaw4\/s0\/2016-10-02_10-07-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-tBkdJ6le9VA\/V_DAbEeeSVI\/AAAAAAAAfTE\/_7bJNsfK3BM\/s0\/2016-10-02_10-08-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-5cTz1agFCAg\/V_DAjp3CuZI\/AAAAAAAAfTM\/H1CXP3n9iiw\/s0\/2016-10-02_10-08-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-8bW28FtkgC0\/V_DBQol9qVI\/AAAAAAAAfTU\/D33ZHFNlJQA\/s0\/2016-10-02_10-11-45.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Mukunda Goswami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Conch Blows its Horn! Is it time to party? The number five is flyin\u2019 high in the sky over the Vaisnava world these days: Lord Krishna\u2019s appearance (5000 years ago), Lord Caitanya\u2019s \u2018birth\u2019 (500 years back) and ISKCON\u2019s beginning (50 years ago). And lo and behold, October 2016 marks The Conch\u2019s fifth birthday anniversary. The Conch newsletter (New Govardhana\u2019s only) began in 2011 at the prompting of Karunika devi dasi. It was initially slated to be only four pages long, but the faction for a lengthier publication won the day, and hence an eight-page monthly newsletter was born. Replete with photographs and newsy articles, the glossy pages gave readers a glimpse into New Govardhana happenings. The Conch smelled good, felt good, could be read in a favourite chair away from computer screens and became instantly accepted as a welcome addition to the community. Monthly hand deliveries to New Govardhana and Murwillumbah resident devotees enhanced readability and endeared the project to many. Hi-5 to The Conch!<!--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-31912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912","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=31912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31914,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912\/revisions\/31914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}