{"id":7398,"date":"2009-01-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/21\/multifaith-clergy-gathers-at-obama-s-first-worship-service\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:00:00","slug":"multifaith-clergy-gathers-at-obama-s-first-worship-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/21\/multifaith-clergy-gathers-at-obama-s-first-worship-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Multifaith Clergy Gathers At Obama&#8217;s First Worship Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/21\/AR2009012101029.html\">www.washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 22, 2009: President Obama began his first full day in office yesterday with a broad collection of American faith leaders praying with him and for him at Washington National Cathedral in a worship service crafted specially to reflect his interest in religious diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbis in yarmulkes, Catholic bishops in magenta vestments, Protestant pastors in suits, and Hindu and Muslim leaders in colorful garb &#8212; 20 prominent religious leaders in all &#8212; participated as Obama sat in the front pew flanked by his wife, Michelle, and Vice President Biden and his wife, Jill. The number and mix of clergy at this year&#8217;s National Prayer Service might have been the largest and most diverse, historians said. The service dates in some form to George Washington&#8217;s inauguration and traditionally has marked the end of the ceremonies surrounding an incoming president. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 22, 2009: President Obama began his first full day in office yesterday with a broad,&#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-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","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=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}