{"id":6431,"date":"2011-03-21T06:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2011-03-22T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:32:37","slug":"holi_moly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/holi_moly.html","title":{"rendered":"Holi Moly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops shut down the yearly Holi festival in Richmond Hill on the grounds that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/03\/21\/2011-03-21_parade_marred_by_cops_hindus.html\">&#8220;you can&#8217;t have powder&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For some 25 years, Hindus in Richmond Hill have held a parade to celebrate the ancient religious holiday Holi &#8212; the Festival of Colors. Participants traditionally throw colored powder at one another, but Sunday cops seized loads of the powder from paradegoers. &#8220;They walked around and started grabbing from anyone they saw,&#8221; said parade organizer Vishnu Mahadeo, 50, president of the Richmond Hill Economic Development Council. &#8220;They said the law said you can&#8217;t have powder.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More detail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenscourier.com\/articles\/2011\/03\/22\/news\/top_stories\/doc4d889fdacbb1b961807436.txt\">&#8220;Phagwah parade,&#8221; Queens Courier, March 22, 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/the_problem_wit_1.html\">&#8220;The Problem With Community Boards&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/richmondhill\/phagwah\/index.htm\">Phagwah Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cops shut down the yearly Holi festival in Richmond Hill on the grounds that &#8220;you can&#8217;t have powder&#8221;: For some 25 years, Hindus in Richmond Hill have held a parade to celebrate the ancient religious holiday Holi &#8212; the Festival of Colors. Participants traditionally throw colored powder at one another, but Sunday cops seized loads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,11,3,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move","category-law_order","category-queens","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}