{"id":50758,"date":"2017-09-09T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/165148826136"},"modified":"2017-09-09T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:00:16","slug":"iskcon-hosts-interfaith-day-of-prayer-for-harvey-victims-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=50758","title":{"rendered":"ISKCON Hosts Interfaith Day of Prayer for Harvey Victims. \nIn&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_ow0k4gg2c11sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ow0k4gg2c11sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ow0k4gg2c11sbj0vuo1_500-140x187.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ISKCON Hosts Interfaith Day of Prayer for Harvey Victims. <br \/>\nIn the wake of Hurricane Harvey\u2019s unprecedented flooding and devastation, Texas Governor Greg Abbott proclaimed Sunday, Sept 3rd as a Day of Prayer in Texas\u2014which happened to coincide with the birth anniversary of Bhaktivinoda Thakur, a 19th century Vaishnava Hindu saint and theologian who envisioned people from all nations coming together harmoniously through the blissful chanting of the holy names of God.<br \/>\nPrior to Harvey, ISKCON of Houston had planned Kirtanfest, a weekend of kirtan or devotional call-and-response prayerful chanting, over Labor Day weekend. After nearly canceling the event due to safety concerns, ISKCON decided it was vital to carry on with Kirtanfest in a shortened format, dedicating it for the healing and recovery of the people of Texas. In addition, to make it all-inclusive, they added an interfaith prayer segment in the spirit of Bhaktivinoda, who wrote in his Shri Chaitanya Shikshamritam 8-9:<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/RtsjDA\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/RtsjDA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/8c99308df0cb498a8374729efea309d7\/tumblr_ow0k4gg2c11sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>ISKCON Hosts Interfaith Day of Prayer for Harvey Victims. <br \/>\nIn the wake of Hurricane Harvey&rsquo;s unprecedented flooding and devastation, Texas Governor Greg Abbott proclaimed Sunday, Sept 3rd as a Day of Prayer in Texas&mdash;which happened to coincide with the birth anniversary of Bhaktivinoda Thakur, a 19th century Vaishnava Hindu saint and theologian who envisioned people from all nations coming together harmoniously through the blissful chanting of the holy names of God.<br \/>\nPrior to Harvey, ISKCON of Houston had planned Kirtanfest, a weekend of kirtan or devotional call-and-response prayerful chanting, over Labor Day weekend. After nearly canceling the event due to safety concerns, ISKCON decided it was vital to carry on with Kirtanfest in a shortened format, dedicating it for the healing and recovery of the people of Texas. In addition, to make it all-inclusive, they added an interfaith prayer segment in the spirit of Bhaktivinoda, who wrote in his Shri Chaitanya Shikshamritam 8-9:<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/RtsjDA\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/RtsjDA<\/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-50758","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\/50758","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=50758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50759,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758\/revisions\/50759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}