{"id":17834,"date":"2021-10-09T01:42:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=17834"},"modified":"2021-10-09T01:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:42:40","slug":"hindu-american-foundation-releases-diwali-educational-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2021\/10\/09\/hindu-american-foundation-releases-diwali-educational-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu American Foundation Releases Diwali Educational Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>USA, October 8, 2021 (hinduamerican.org): Diwali is known as the \u201cFestival of Lights\u201d and is a Hindu holiday widely celebrated in India and across the Hindu Diaspora. The word Diwali derives from Sanskrit meaning \u201ca row of lights\u201d and clay lamps or diyas are lit to signify the destruction, through knowledge, of all negative qualities. In other words, Diwali celebrates the victory of good over evil. Diwali is November 4, 2021 this year and we invite you to celebrate with our revamped Toolkit, which has more information about why Diwali is celebrated, Common Core State Standards (CCSS) lessons for the classroom and activities to do at home with your young learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduamerican.org\/diwali-toolkit\">https:\/\/www.hinduamerican.org\/diwali-toolkit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA, October 8, 2021 (hinduamerican.org): Diwali is known as the \u201cFestival of Lights\u201d and is a Hindu holiday widely celebrated,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17851,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions\/17851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}