{"id":8351,"date":"2009-10-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/15\/obama-issues-special-diwali-video-congratulating-hindus\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:00:00","slug":"obama-issues-special-diwali-video-congratulating-hindus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/15\/obama-issues-special-diwali-video-congratulating-hindus\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Issues Special Diwali Video Congratulating Hindus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SuiAW_6XKVM&#038;feature=channel&#038;fmt=18\">www.youtube.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC, USA, October 16, 2009: President Barack Obama is not only the first American president to attend the annual Diwali celebration held at the White House, but he is also the first to issue a video congratulating Hindus. See it at source above. <\/p>\n<p>In his video message, President Obama talks about the Ramayana and the triumph of good over evil. The president mentions the Sanskrit mantra Asato Ma Sad Gamaya, and recites a translated version. It is a remarkable display of the respect the 2.4-million strong Hindu community in the U.S. has earned.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.youtube.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, October 16, 2009: President Barack Obama is not only the first American president to attend,&#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-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","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=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}