{"id":7118,"date":"2004-02-12T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/02\/12\/hindu-group-issues-valentines-warning\/"},"modified":"2004-02-12T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T14:35:36","slug":"hindu-group-issues-valentines-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/02\/hindu-group-issues-valentines-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Group Issues Valentine&#039;s Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">LUCKNOW, India &#8211; Hindu nationalists who claim they are fighting against Western cultural influence have threatened to shave young lovers&#8217; heads and beat them if they exchange Valentine&#8217;s Day cards and gifts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Valentine&#8217;s Day, which falls on Saturday, has in recent years gained popularity in India &#8211; a predominantly Hindu nation whose constitution guarantee freedom of religion.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/fortwayne\/news\/local\/7935989.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Western cultural influences are in many cases toxic schlock, especially the commercialization of events like Valentine&#8217;s Day.  But beating people and shaving their heads to prevent Valentine&#8217;s Day cards and gifts seems rather ironic.  &#8220;What did you get for Valentines?&#8221;  A haircut.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW, India &#8211; Hindu nationalists who claim they are fighting against Western cultural influence have threatened to shave young lovers&#8217; heads and beat them if they exchange Valentine&#8217;s Day cards&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}