{"id":3371,"date":"2010-08-19T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:26:59","slug":"church-in-sayville-traces-its-roots-back-to-one-of-my-namesakes-the-apostle-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3371","title":{"rendered":"Church in Sayville, traces it&#8217;s roots back to one of my namesakes, the Apostle Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#39;s here it for Thomas! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/17\/nyregion\/17procession.html?th&amp;emc=th\">WEST SAYVILLE, N.Y. \u2014 Without doubt, many more people line the sidewalks to see the St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade in Manhattan than to watch the St. Mary Malankara Indian Orthodox Church\u2019s annual Assumption Day Parade, which began here on Sunday with the usual blowing of the kumbu horn and the dancing of the koladi by the congregation\u2019s teenage girls, dressed in saris and banging sticks<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#39;s here it for Thomas! WEST SAYVILLE, N.Y. \u2014 Without doubt, many more people line the sidewalks to see the St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade in Manhattan than to watch the St. Mary Malankara Indian Orthodox Church\u2019s annual Assumption Day Parade, which began here on Sunday with the usual blowing of the kumbu horn and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6066,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions\/6066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}