{"id":15031,"date":"2014-01-12T03:56:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T11:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15031"},"modified":"2014-01-12T03:56:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T11:56:34","slug":"makar-sankranti-kite-celebration-hits-l-a-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/makar-sankranti-kite-celebration-hits-l-a-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Makar Sankranti Kite Celebration Hits L.A. Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/indiki.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach, Ca\u2014More than 250 kite flyers celebrated the beginning of the harvest season in India recently. \u201cIt\u2019s a tradition that has happened for thousands of years in India and we wanted to share our culture with Southern Californians,\u201d said Vibhuti Nanda, co-vice president of events for the Indian Professional Network of Los Angeles and Orange County, who sponsored the Third Annual Kites Festival at the beach near Ocean Boulevard and 54th Place.<\/p>\n<p>A major part of the Makar Sankranti celebration, which also comes with the cessation of the northeastern monsoon in Southern India, involves putting a lot of colorful kites in the air. People in India even fly them from their rooftops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to embrace our culture and the inner child&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/culture\/indian-kites.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach, Ca\u2014More than 250 kite flyers celebrated the beginning of the harvest season in India recently. \u201cIt\u2019s a tradition that has happened for thousands of years in India and we wanted to share our culture with Southern Californians,\u201d said Vibhuti Nanda, co-vice president of events for the Indian Professional Network of Los Angeles and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}