{"id":17591,"date":"2015-02-28T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T19:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/vandals-shatter-windows-leave-graffiti-on-hindu-temple-walls-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T08:10:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:10:35","slug":"vandals-shatter-windows-leave-graffiti-on-hindu-temple-walls-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/vandals-shatter-windows-leave-graffiti-on-hindu-temple-walls-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals shatter windows, leave graffiti on Hindu temple walls in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Reporter staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Vandals broke several windows and scrawled the word &#8220;FEAR&#8221; on a wall at a Kent Hindu temple late Thursday night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The FBI and Kent Police are investigation. Officials consider it a hate crime.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This was second such incident in recent days in the area. Earlier this month, vandals spray-painted a swastika and the words &#8220;get out&#8221; on a Hindu temple in Bothell.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Hindu spokesman Rajan Zed, in a statement released Friday, said that latest incident is shocking for a hard-working, harmonious and peaceful Hindu community to receive such signals of hatred and anger.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Followers of the temple are unsure whether they were targeted for their faith or if neighborhood teens were just causing trouble.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, urged administration for swift action to regain the falling confidence of the Hindu community.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent Hindu Temple (Sanatan Dharma Temple and Cultural Center), a nonprofit organization formed in 2002, opens daily. Besides regular worship services, it organizes festivals; Indian music, dance and language classes; yoga; and weekly children&#8217;s-parents&#8217; activities.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vandals broke several windows and scrawled the word &#8220;FEAR&#8221; on a wall at a Kent Hindu temple late Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":17592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}