{"id":16600,"date":"2019-03-19T17:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T06:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/target\/viewpoint-discovering-hinduism-in-arati\/"},"modified":"2020-11-26T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:28:22","slug":"viewpoint-discovering-hinduism-in-arati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/viewpoint-discovering-hinduism-in-arati\/","title":{"rendered":"VIEWPOINT: Discovering Hinduism in \u0100rat\u012b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehoya.com\/viewpoint-discovering-hinduism-arati\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view original web page at VIEWPOINT: Discovering Hinduism in \u0100rat\u012b<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\"><p>Each Sunday evening as I enter Georgetown University\u2019s Jewish prayer room, Mak\u00f3m, for weekly \u0100rat\u012b , herbal incense and the soft hum of the harmonium greet me. After I grab a comfortable pillow and find a spot, I close my eyes and begin meditating with the rest of my Hindu community, feeling at home at last. Though I have only been at Georgetown for eight months, I have discovered the value of my faith and found community within Hindu spaces on campus. Before I came to the Hilltop, I had never been a part of an extensive cultural or faith-based organization like the Hindu Students Association. At my high school, tucked away past the acres of Iowa corn fields, I was the only Hindu and Indian student. The nonexistent Hindu community at school discouraged me from embracing my faith; I was so lonely and ashamed of my cultural identity [&#8230;]<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to view original web page at VIEWPOINT: Discovering Hinduism in \u0100rat\u012b Each Sunday evening as I enter Georgetown University\u2019s Jewish prayer room, Mak\u00f3m, for weekly \u0100rat\u012b , herbal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[198,358,66,268,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-hindus-in-usa","category-hinduism-news","category-hindu-rituals","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21744,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions\/21744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}