{"id":11359,"date":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/03\/museum-of-hindu-civilization-honored-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","slug":"museum-of-hindu-civilization-honored-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/03\/museum-of-hindu-civilization-honored-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Hindu Civilization Honored in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/press-release\/canadian-museum-of-hindu-civilization-recieves-cf-medallion-of-distinguished-service-1707257.htm\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, ONTARIO, September 30, 2012 (Marketwire): The Board of Directors at the Canadian Museum of Hindu Civilization were awarded the Canadian Forces Medallion for Distinguished Service today for their role in creating a monument for fallen soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The memorial, called Monument to the Fallen, was built by the Indo-Canadian community to offer respect and gratitude to the Canadian Forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Board of Directors, committee, and donors of this monument embody the kind of public support that means so much to the men and women serving in our military,&#8221; said Brigadier-General Omer Lavoie, who presented the medal on behalf of the Chief of Defense Staff General Walt Natynczyk.<\/p>\n<p>The medallion is awarded in recognition of outstanding service performed by persons or organizations outside the active military community. It is the highest honor bestowed upon civilians for service of a rare and exceptionally high standard, which accrues great benefit to the Canadian Forces as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TORONTO, ONTARIO, September 30, 2012 (Marketwire): The Board of Directors at the Canadian Museum of Hindu Civilization were awarded,&#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-11359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359","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=11359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}