{"id":8455,"date":"2009-11-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/16\/for-obama-s-daughter-bedtime-stories-with-hinduism-and-christian-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2009-11-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T12:00:00","slug":"for-obama-s-daughter-bedtime-stories-with-hinduism-and-christian-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/16\/for-obama-s-daughter-bedtime-stories-with-hinduism-and-christian-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"For Obama&#8217;s Daughter, Bedtime Stories With Hinduism and Christian Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technology-media-telco-SP\/idUSN0928009820091110\">www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC, USA, November 9, 2009: WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Barack Obama may be in for a nasty surprise when he reaches the final pages of the best-selling book Life of Pi, which he said on Monday he was reading with his 11-year-old daughter Malia. In an interview with Reuters, Obama called it a &#8220;wonderful book&#8221; that was enthralling his daughter. &#8220;There are whole chapters that really have to do with Hinduism, Christianity. There is a lot of philosophical stuff in there, but for some reason she (Malia) is hanging in there,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The prize-winning book by Yann Martel centers on the journey of Pi Patel, who is cast adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger, a hyena, a zebra and an orangutan after a ship carrying him and his family from India to Canada sinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.reuters.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, November 9, 2009: WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Barack Obama may be in,&#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-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","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=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}