{"id":6400,"date":"2007-11-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/11\/10\/uk-prime-minister-praise-diwali-festival\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T12:00:00","slug":"uk-prime-minister-praise-diwali-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/11\/10\/uk-prime-minister-praise-diwali-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister Praise Diwali Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/003200711101024.htm\">www.hinduonnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, UK, November 9, 2007: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown described Diwali as &#8220;a wonderful inclusive festival&#8221; as thousands of enthusiastic Hindus and Sikhs in Britain celebrated the Indian festival of light last night. In a message telecast on different channels on Friday night, Brown said &#8220;I am delighted to send my warmest greetings to everyone in our Hindu and Sikh communities on the auspicious occasion of Diwali.&#8221; He said &#8220;Diwali is such a wonderful inclusive festival, which reaches beyond your communities to people of many backgrounds all over the world. The symbolic lighting of lamps, representing life, hope and new beginnings sends a powerful message of unity and peace to us all. &#8220;I know that Diwali is a special time for families, who come together to celebrate and reflect on the year gone by.&#8221; &#8220;And it also gives me an opportunity to recognize and reflect on the huge contribution made by British Hindu and Sikh communities to our country&#8217;s prosperity and our culture. Your involvement in every sphere of our national life is something we can all immensely be proud of,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Once again, my very best wishes for a joyous occasion. Happy Diwali.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, UK, November 9, 2007: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown described Diwali as &#8220;a wonderful inclusive festival&#8221; as thousands,&#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-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400","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=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}