{"id":3636,"date":"2003-10-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/26\/2003-10-26-diwali-it-s-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2003-10-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-26T12:00:00","slug":"2003-10-26-diwali-it-s-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/26\/2003-10-26-diwali-it-s-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Diwali &#8212; It&#8217;s Everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Reports<\/P><P>KAUAI, HAWAII, October 26, 2003: HPI&#8217;s received so many Diwali news reports that we&#8217;ve decided to just list them all at once (the links all worked today&#8230;):<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nLondon: <BR><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE820031019025225&#038;Page=8&#038;Title=NRIs&#038;Topic=0&#038;\">click here<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nKuala Lumpur, Malaysia:<BR><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.mmail.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Saturday\/Frontpage\/20031025082308\/Article\/\">click here<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nWashington, D.C., at the White House, no less&#8230;<BR><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/uncomp\/articleshow?msid=250600\">click here<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nSurinam:<BR><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dwt.net\/Archief\/2003\/okt%202003\/23%20okt\/Gemeenschapsactiviteiten%20onderstrepen%20achtergronden%20Divali.htm\">click here<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nGuyana:<BR><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guyanachronicle.com\/topstory.html#Anchor-Prince%20E-54913\">click here<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nA Diwali US Post Stamp is issued (HPI would like a copy, if someone can find this): <BR><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/uncomp\/articleshow?msid=247596\">click here<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nThe BBC takes a swipe at the festival &#8212; &#8220;Diwali is a time for giving and receiving. But the gift-giving has a darker side in the shape of bribery, and year on year the presents are growing ever more extravagant.&#8221; As if some Christmas &#8220;presents&#8221; don&#8217;t serve much the same purpose&#8230; <BR><br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3211981.stm\">click here<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press ReportsKAUAI, HAWAII, October 26, 2003: HPI&#8217;s received so many Diwali news reports that we&#8217;ve decided to just list them,&#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-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","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=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}