{"id":8361,"date":"2009-10-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/19\/hindus-give-money-food-and-blood-for-diwali\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-give-money-food-and-blood-for-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/19\/hindus-give-money-food-and-blood-for-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus Give Money, Food, And Blood For Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times-series.co.uk\/news\/4689056.Hindus_in_Golders_Green_give_money__food__and_blood_for_Diwali\/\">www.times-series.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, October 18, 2009: The Shree Swaminarayan Temple, in Finchley Road, opened its doors for the annual festival of light, in which Hindus are encourage to give food and money.<\/p>\n<p>This year leaders decided the spirit of giving should extend further than food and money to help give blood supplies among ethnic minorities a welcome boost. Prem Patel, spokesman for the temple, said: &#8220;Diwali is a time of giving, to society as well as to loved ones. &#8220;We have hundreds if not thousands through these doors, and many have taken up the service offered by the National Blood Service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There has been a longstanding shortage of blood donations from the ethnic minority communities, which is a problem because body tissue has racially specific characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.times-series.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, October 18, 2009: The Shree Swaminarayan Temple, in Finchley Road, opened its doors for the annual,&#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-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","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=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}