{"id":9622,"date":"2010-10-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/10\/group-wants-gandhi-statue-removed\/"},"modified":"2010-10-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T12:00:00","slug":"group-wants-gandhi-statue-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/10\/group-wants-gandhi-statue-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Wants Gandhi Statue Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2010\/10\/02\/Group-wants-Gandhi-statue-removed\/UPI-59361286059348\/\">www.upi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, October 2, 2010: A group advocating for minorities in India is lobbying for the removal of a statue of Mohandas Gandhi in San Francisco. &#8220;The popular image of Gandhi as an egalitarian pacifist is a myth,&#8221; Bhajan Singh, a member of the Organization for Minorities of India, said in a statement. &#8220;We plan to challenge that myth by disseminating Gandhi&#8217;s own words to expose his racism and sham nonviolence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Singh and his colleagues say Gandhi&#8217;s political views are responsible for the oppression of Indian Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and other minorities. <\/p>\n<p>The bronze statue was erectd in a plaza at the Ferry Building in 1988, P.J. Johnston, head of the city Arts Commission, said he expects Gandhi to remain where he is. &#8220;I would just say that in my professional career, I&#8217;ve had no greater honor than having to defend Gandhi,&#8221; Johnston, a professional crisis manager, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.upi.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, October 2, 2010: A group advocating for minorities in India is lobbying for the removal,&#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-9622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622","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=9622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}