{"id":1236,"date":"2001-09-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/27\/2001-09-27-multiethnic-solidarity-marks-san-jose-vigil\/"},"modified":"2001-09-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-27T12:00:00","slug":"2001-09-27-multiethnic-solidarity-marks-san-jose-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/27\/2001-09-27-multiethnic-solidarity-marks-san-jose-vigil\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiethnic Solidarity Marks San Jose Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www0.mercurycenter.com:80\/premium\/local\/docs\/vigil24.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, September 24, 2001: In a show of diversity, San Jose&#8217;s first major public memorial to the victims of the terrorist attacks was led Sunday by clerics representing six faiths: Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism and Islam. Many of the 1,200 people gathered not only to pray for the victims but also to show their solidarity with their adopted country. &#8220;Today we send the victims our prayers in every language and every faith. We will not forget them,&#8221; said San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales. &#8220;We must embrace each other, embrace our differences and share our common beliefs &#8212; democracy, liberty, tolerance and justice.&#8221; The more than 30 Indo-American groups that participated also kicked off a US$1 million fundraising campaign for the victims. The community is organizing volunteer efforts, ranging from a blood drive to a list of software engineers willing to help New York get back on line. About half of California&#8217;s 314,000 Indo-Americans live in the Bay Area.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, September 24, 2001: In a show of diversity, San Jose&#8217;s first major public memorial,&#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-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","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=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}