{"id":2794,"date":"2010-11-04T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2010-11-04T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:45:10","slug":"the-alliance-for-change-extends-diwali-greetings-to-all-guyanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=2794","title":{"rendered":"The Alliance for Change extends Diwali Greetings to all Guyanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we prepare to celebrate Diwali \u2013 the Festival of Lights, the Alliance For Change sends special Diwali greetings to our Hindu brothers and sisters and to all Guyanese.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0As we all enjoy the beauty of this festival, the traditional lighting of diyas with family and friends and the viewing of the symbolic parade of light, but \u00a0let us also reflect on the religious importance of Diwali, the significance of darkness being replaced by light and the triumph of goodness over evil.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We recognise that Diwali is a celebration of life itself and that the lights and diyas represent hope for all humankind regardless of faith or ethnicity. The AFC encourages Guyanese of all faiths to assist in removing the darkness and evil that plagues some of our communities and to work towards \u00a0strengthen family and social relationships in the spirit of Diwali.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Diwali to all Guyanese.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Alliance For Change<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 226-0181<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we prepare to celebrate Diwali \u2013 the Festival of Lights, the Alliance For Change sends special Diwali greetings to our Hindu brothers and sisters and to all Guyanese. \u00a0As we all enjoy the beauty of this festival, the traditional lighting of diyas with family and friends and the viewing of the symbolic parade of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pressreleases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-J4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}