{"id":96092,"date":"2021-08-15T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=96092"},"modified":"2021-08-15T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T07:16:28","slug":"the-fiftieth-anniversary-of-new-dwaraka-dhama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=96092","title":{"rendered":"The Fiftieth Anniversary of New Dwaraka Dhama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n \t \tdocument.location = \"http:\/\/btg.krishna.com\/fiftieth-anniversary-new-dwaraka-dhama\";\n \t<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/F5qbojY.jpeg \"\/><strong>By Karuna Dharini Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The place Srila Prabhupada called his &#8220;Western world headquarters&#8221; remains a vital oasis of Krishna consciousness. Part One: Some History<br \/>\nStarting off in Midcity LA, 1968. ISKCON\u2019s new center in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, was getting a good turnout. It was \u201cthe summer of love,\u201d 1967, when idealistic youth gathering in the Haight to seek peace, justice, and alternative lifestyles often became overwhelmed by the area&#8217;s crime, pimps, and drug dealers. Srila Prabhupada\u2019s disciples offered hot prasadam meals at the ISKCON storefront every day, and their center became a drop-in for wayward souls of the freewheeling lifestyle that had become an epidemic. That summer, the San Francisco devotees staged the western world\u2019s first Festival of the Chariots, or Rathayatra, attended by thousands.  <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96092","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=96092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96094,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96092\/revisions\/96094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}