{"id":8342,"date":"2009-10-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/13\/uk-leaders-extend-diwali-greetings\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T12:00:00","slug":"uk-leaders-extend-diwali-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/13\/uk-leaders-extend-diwali-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Leaders Extend Diwali Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/week.manoramaonline.com\/cgi-bin\/MMOnline.dll\/portal\/ep\/contentView.do?contentId=6100529&#038;programId=1073754912&#038;pageTypeId=1073754893&#038;contentType=EDITORIAL\">week.manoramaonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, UK, October 14, 2009: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today extended hearty Diwali greetings on the occasion of celebrations of the festival of lights in the House of Commons, attended by leading politicians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am delighted that Diwali Celebrations will once again take place within the House of Commons. The Festival of Lights is a wonderful example of the achievements of the Hindu community and the great cultural diversity of our country,&#8221; Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>David Caeron, leader of the Conservative party, said: &#8220;This great celebration  reaffirms the importance of family, friendship, and values such as hope, optimism and the victory of good over evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: week.manoramaonline.com LONDON, UK, October 14, 2009: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today extended hearty Diwali greetings on the occasion,&#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-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","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=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}