{"id":1525,"date":"2009-10-16T00:25:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T07:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:14:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:14:04","slug":"president-observes-hindu-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/president-observes-hindu-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"President Observes Hindu Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/Diwali-Wishes-From-President-Obama\/\">White House announced<\/a> that President Obama observed the<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>auspicious holiday of Diwali, or festival of lights, in the East Room of the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>making him the first US President to do so.\u00a0 Diwali is reportedly<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a major pan-Indian festival celebrated around the day of the new moon in October-November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/blogs\/god-and-country\/2009\/10\/15\/obama-celebrates-diwali.html?s_cid=rss:god-and-country:obama-celebrates-diwali\">lit and bowed<\/a> to a ceremonial Diwali lamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House announced that President Obama observed the auspicious holiday of Diwali, or festival of lights, in the East Room of the White House. making him the first US President to do so.\u00a0 Diwali is reportedly a major pan-Indian festival celebrated around the day of the new moon in October-November. Obama lit and bowed to a ceremonial Diwali lamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4,19,73,43,45,11,17,10],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-churchandstate","tag-government","tag-hindu","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}