{"id":1023,"date":"2001-07-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/07\/21\/2001-07-21-india-nationalists-denounce-president-bush-s-cat\/"},"modified":"2001-07-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-07-21T12:00:00","slug":"2001-07-21-india-nationalists-denounce-president-bush-s-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/07\/21\/2001-07-21-india-nationalists-denounce-president-bush-s-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"India Nationalists Denounce President Bush&#8217;s Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/international\/AP-India-Bushs-Cat.html \">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BOMBAY, INDIA, July 19, 2001: Nationalists protested in front of the U.S. Consulate here Thursday, saying the name of President Bush&#8217;s cat &#8212; &#8220;India&#8221; &#8212; was an insult and should be removed from the White House Web site. &#8220;Mr. President, don&#8217;t make a mistake. Indians are lions not cats,&#8221; read posters held up by some of the 30 activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party. &#8220;We feel that this is derogatory and the Web site should be corrected,&#8221; said Mangal Prabhat Lodha, a state legislator and member of the party. &#8220;We happened to see the Web site where the cat is introduced along with other Bush family members. That&#8217;s when we realized that George Bush&#8217;s cat is called &#8216;India,&#8217; &#8221; said Lodha. &#8220;No, we are not asking for renaming. We just want mention of the cat to be removed from the Web site,&#8221; said Lodha. He handed a protest letter to a consulate official, who said it would be forwarded to the White House. The Web site &#8212; http:\/\/whitehouse.gov\/president\/ &#8212; contains a thumbnail sketch of Bush and introduces his wife, twin daughters and the family pets &#8212; two dogs and a cat.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE BOMBAY, INDIA, July 19, 2001: Nationalists protested in front of the U.S. Consulate here Thursday, saying the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}