{"id":5486,"date":"2009-11-02T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2009-11-02T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:27:11","slug":"uri-indian-student-association-to-host-diwali-celebration-nov-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2009\/11\/02\/uri-indian-student-association-to-host-diwali-celebration-nov-7\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Indian Student Association to host Diwali celebration, Nov. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/releases\/html\/images\/Diwaliw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" align=\"right\" \/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013November 2, 2009\u2014The Indian Student Association at the University of Rhode Island will celebrate Diwali 2009: \u201cWe made the darkest night the festival of lights\u201d on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Rainville Ballroom, Memorial Union, 50 Lower College Road, Kingston. The popular event generally draws about 250 people.<br \/>\nTickets are $10 for adults, $4 for children under 12. The student group will donate $1 of the ticket price to Bakul, a non-profit organization in India, which strives to restore basic rights to underprivileged children.<br \/>\n\u201cDiwali is a festival of lights celebrated in India,\u201d explains Supriya Kulkarni, president of the student group. \u201cThe festival signifies victory of good over evil, light over dark and hence the tagline. There are five days to the festival, each of them signifying certain specific sentiments. This year, Diwali actually was celebrated in the second week of October in India. However, we try to organize this function at the convenience of the graduate students, as they are the ones who will perform.\u201d<br \/>\nA few other non-student performers will also take part this year. The performance, according to Kulkarni, will give the audience a glance into the culture of India.<br \/>\nHonorary guests this year are Nasser Zawia, interim dean, URI Graduate School and Ronald Jordan, dean of the URI College of Pharmacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013November 2, 2009\u2014The Indian Student Association at the University of Rhode Island will celebrate Diwali 2009: \u201cWe made the darkest night the festival of lights\u201d on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Rainville Ballroom, Memorial Union, 50 Lower College Road, Kingston. The popular event generally draws about 250 people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":5487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,248,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drug-info","category-news-graduate-program","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}