{"id":2753,"date":"2003-01-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/01\/05\/2003-01-05-deepavali-in-birmingham-an-interfaith-event\/"},"modified":"2003-01-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-05T12:00:00","slug":"2003-01-05-deepavali-in-birmingham-an-interfaith-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/01\/05\/2003-01-05-deepavali-in-birmingham-an-interfaith-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepavali in Birmingham an Interfaith Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Press Reports<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, December 24, 2002: In an effort to promote cross-cultural links, the city of Birmingham, England, connected the annual Deepavali celebration with the lighting of the towns&#8217; Christmas lights. Held in November the annual event attracted over 5000 people, three quarters of whom were Hindu or Sikh.  Indian music, prayer, dance and fireworks plus children&#8217;s rides and food tents filled Centenary Square, with exhibitions by students at the Repertory Theater. The exhibitions included a cultural zone where a mock Indian wedding was held using a Manap (traditional four-poster carriage), a &#8220;spiritual zone&#8221; with classical Indian music and meditation and a children&#8217;s area.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Press Reports BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, December 24, 2002: In an effort to promote cross-cultural links, the city of Birmingham, England,,&#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-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","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=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}