{"id":83994,"date":"2020-11-15T11:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T11:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=83994"},"modified":"2020-11-15T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T11:09:32","slug":"us-president-elect-joe-biden-extends-wishes-on-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-president-elect-joe-biden-extends-wishes-on-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"US President-elect Joe Biden extends wishes on Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Washington<br>\nUS President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday extended his wishes on the occasion of Diwali.&#8221;To the millions of Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and Buddhists celebrating the Festival of Lights, @DrBiden and I send our best wishes for a #HappyDiwali. May your new year be filled with hope, happiness, and prosperity. Sal Mubarak,&#8221; Biden wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris also extended greetings on the occasion of Diwali. &#8220;Happy Diwali and Sal Mubarak! @DouglasEmhoff (Doug Emhoff) and I wish everyone celebrating around the world a safe, healthy, and joyous new year,&#8221; she tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is believed that on this day Lord Rama (the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu) returned from a 14-year-long exile, during which he fought and won a battle against the demon king Ravana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People across India and around the world celebrate the festival by decorating their houses, exchanging gifts, and offering prayers in order to commemorate the &#8220;victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington US President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday extended his wishes on the occasion of Diwali.&#8221;To the millions of Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and Buddhists celebrating the Festival of Lights, @DrBiden and I send our best wishes for a #HappyDiwali. May your new year be filled with hope, happiness, and prosperity. Sal Mubarak,&#8221; Biden wrote on Twitter. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83996,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83994\/revisions\/83996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}