{"id":403,"date":"2006-07-12T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2006-07-13T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T18:58:28","slug":"ratha-yatra-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Ratha Yatra for the 21st Century!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ratheda3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Prema Bhakti Marga dasi<\/p>\n<p>Last year my husband and I, who have been initiated devotees since 1989, and a few friends attended Ratha-yatra as we do each year, in this case the San Francisco Rath. We took notice that the Rath booths are extremely outdated particularly when reading the vegetarianism display to our 5-year-old son. What concerned us even more was that the celebrities listed were so outdated that some, Michael Jackson in particular, are now defamed. I find it extremely disturbing that Michael Jackson&#8217;s name is associated with ISKCON for some very obvious reasons. He has been accused in the past and now most recently of child molestation and furthermore he is considered it seems by most circles to be &#8220;nuts&#8221;, to put it bluntly.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many current celebs that support alternative lifestyles and vegetarianism, why can&#8217;t we update? Alec Baldwin recently did a video for PETA, and many other celebs are actively vocalizing their vegan\/veg lifestyles. Why must we reach so far back to the 70&#8217;s when the majority of the Ratha-yatra attendees weren&#8217;t even alive then?<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t mean to be critical. We are well aware of how steady the devotees have been in providing the Ratha-yatra booths. But it seems a simple matter to adjust which can make the efforts of such preaching more relevant and successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ratswswha3.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Prema Bhakti Marga dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Alec Baldwin recently did a video for PETA, and many other celebs are actively vocalizing their vegan\/veg lifestyles. Why must we reach so far back to the 70&#8217;s when the majority of the Ratha-yatra attendees weren&#8217;t even alive then?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}