{"id":11737,"date":"2006-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/27\/sri-sri-ravishankar-awarded-mongolia-s-highest-civilian-honor\/"},"modified":"2006-08-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T12:00:00","slug":"sri-sri-ravishankar-awarded-mongolia-s-highest-civilian-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/27\/sri-sri-ravishankar-awarded-mongolia-s-highest-civilian-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Sri Ravishankar Awarded Mongolia&#8217;s Highest Civilian Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.zeenews.com\/articles.asp?aid=317834&#038;sid=LIF&#038;ssid=204\">www.zeenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">ULAN BATOR, MONGOLIA, August 24, 2006: Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar was today honored with Mongolia&#8217;s highest civilian award for his contribution to Indo-Mongolian friendship through his foundation. Mongolia&#8217;s president N. Enkhabayar bestowed the &#8220;Pole Star&#8221; upon the guru at Soyombo Hall in the President&#8217;s office. The spiritual guru is here on the official invitation of the Mongolian government. His Art of Living Foundation has a huge following in Mongolia with the country&#8217;s President and Prime Minister being its ardent practitioners. &#8220;I feel honored at being bestowed with this honor and I believe it is not just the recognition of an individual but the recognition of deep spiritual and historical relations that India and Mongolia share,&#8221; said Sri Sri Ravishankar after receiving the award for his &#8220;Yeoman service to mankind.&#8221; According to the President&#8217;s spokesperson, Tugsjargal Gandhi, very few people have been accorded the rare honor.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.zeenews.com ULAN BATOR, MONGOLIA, August 24, 2006: Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar was today honored with Mongolia&#8217;s highest,&#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-11737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11737","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=11737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}