{"id":6561,"date":"2008-01-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/01\/27\/new-jersey-council-member-sworn-in-office-holding-the-gita\/"},"modified":"2008-01-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T12:00:00","slug":"new-jersey-council-member-sworn-in-office-holding-the-gita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/01\/27\/new-jersey-council-member-sworn-in-office-holding-the-gita\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Council Member Sworn In Office Holding The Gita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/inwww.rediff.com\/newshound\/index.html\">inwww.rediff.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">EDISON, NEW JERSEY, USA, January 21, 2008: On being sworn in as a member of the Edison Township Council on New Year&#8217;s Day, Dr. Sudhanshu Prasad chose to take the oath of office on the Bhagwad Gita.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Prasad said he chose the Gita because he grew up believing in it, and it is &#8220;where my conscience is.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Prasad, an internal medicine physician and former chairman of the JFK Hospital Department of Medicine, has lived in New Jersey for almost 18 years. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always been involved in the affairs of the township,&#8221; he said when asked about his service to the community. &#8220;I was involved in the election process in the past two elections, so it was almost like a natural progression.&#8221; He was not desirous of holding office. &#8220;But my team almost pushed me into candidacy,&#8221; he said on a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Edison, named after Thomas Alva Edison and home to his laboratory, has a population of more than 100,000 people, according to the township&#8217;s official Web site.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inwww.rediff.com EDISON, NEW JERSEY, USA, January 21, 2008: On being sworn in as a member of the Edison Township Council,&#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-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","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=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}