{"id":9737,"date":"2010-11-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/08\/obama-honors-a-great-soul\/"},"modified":"2010-11-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T12:00:00","slug":"obama-honors-a-great-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/08\/obama-honors-a-great-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Honors a &#8220;Great Soul&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/article874005.ece\">www.thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 8, 2010: It was a rare gift from U.S. President Barack Obama to the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi &#8212; a stone used to build a memorial of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, who was inspired by the Father of the Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama handed over the memorabilia to Rajnish Kumar, Secretary of Rajghat Samadhi Committee, when he along with First Lady Michelle visited Gandhiji&#8217;s memorial on the banks of the Yamuna today. The U.S. first couple bowed their heads, stood in silence for a minute, placed a wreath and showered flower petals. The visiting dignitaries took off their shoes before entering the memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thehindu.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 8, 2010: It was a rare gift from U.S. President Barack Obama to the,&#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-9737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737","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=9737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}