{"id":6079,"date":"2006-05-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/05\/07\/2006-05-07-tony-blair-wears-hindu-sacred-wrist-thread-in-house-of-commons\/"},"modified":"2006-05-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T12:00:00","slug":"2006-05-07-tony-blair-wears-hindu-sacred-wrist-thread-in-house-of-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/05\/07\/2006-05-07-tony-blair-wears-hindu-sacred-wrist-thread-in-house-of-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair Wears Hindu Sacred Wrist Thread In House of Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">News Report:<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, ENGLAND, May 3, 2006: British Prime Minister Tony Blair sported a sacred Hindu red thread on his wrist during heated political exchanges in the House of Commons on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the government said the wristband was a gift presented to Blair when he visited a Hindu temple in Neasden, north London, last week. Journalists spotted the thread on Blair&#8217;s wrist as he was facing tough questioning from the opposition parties over a string of recent government scandals.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Report: LONDON, ENGLAND, May 3, 2006: British Prime Minister Tony Blair sported a sacred Hindu red thread on his,&#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-6079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079","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=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}