{"id":8337,"date":"2009-10-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/12\/indian-stars-will-light-up-diwali-festival\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T12:00:00","slug":"indian-stars-will-light-up-diwali-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/12\/indian-stars-will-light-up-diwali-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Stars Will Light Up Diwali Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carynews.com\/news\/story\/13830.html\">www.carynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CARY, NORTH CAROLINA, October 7, 2009: On Saturday, Sandeep Acharya, winner of the 2006 season of &#8220;Indian Idol,&#8221; and Aditi Paul, a fellow contestant, will bring their acts to the United States, headlining this year&#8217;s Cary Diwali festival. The free festival, one of the biggest of its kind in the Southeast, will be held at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Regency Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be nice to have these two professional entertainers perform here,&#8221; said Tushar Ghosh, a member of the board of directors of the Indian-American organization Hum Sub, which organizes the event along with the town.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year&#8217;s Cary Diwali festival is Padharo Mhae Des, Welcome to the vibrant state of Rajasthan. Last year&#8217;s Diwali attracted 12,000 visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.carynews.com CARY, NORTH CAROLINA, October 7, 2009: On Saturday, Sandeep Acharya, winner of the 2006 season of &#8220;Indian Idol,&#8221;,&#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-8337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337","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=8337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}