{"id":9721,"date":"2010-11-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/06\/julia-roberts-the-world-should-celebrate-diwali\/"},"modified":"2010-11-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T12:00:00","slug":"julia-roberts-the-world-should-celebrate-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/06\/julia-roberts-the-world-should-celebrate-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts: &#8220;The World Should Celebrate Diwali&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nzcity.co.nz\/news\/article.aspx?id=122005&#038;fm=newsmain,nrhl\">home.nzcity.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, November 5, 2010: Julia Roberts thinks the world should celebrate Diwali. The &#8216;Eat Pray Love&#8217; actress believes the Hindu &#8216;Festival of Lights&#8217; should be celebrated throughout the world because it celebrates &#8220;humanity, peace and prosperity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;Diwali should be celebrated unanimously throughout the world as a gesture of goodwill. It not only belongs to Hinduism but is universal in nature and in its essence too. Diwali ignites the values of self-confidence, love for humanity, peace, prosperity and above all eternity which goes beyond all mortal factors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old beauty, who recently revealed she was a convert to Hinduism, confesses she has become interested in the spirituality of the faith because it is more than a &#8220;mere religion.&#8221; She told The Times of India: &#8220;Ever since I developed my liking and fondness for Hinduism, I have been attracted and deeply fascinated by many facets of the multi dimensional Hinduism&#8230; spirituality in it transcends many barriers of mere religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: home.nzcity.co.nz INDIA, November 5, 2010: Julia Roberts thinks the world should celebrate Diwali. The &#8216;Eat Pray Love&#8217; actress believes,&#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-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","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=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}