{"id":304755,"date":"2018-10-28T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T08:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304755"},"modified":"2018-10-28T08:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T08:07:16","slug":"us-president-donald-trump-turns-down-indias-invite-for-republic-day-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-president-donald-trump-turns-down-indias-invite-for-republic-day-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump turns down India\u2019s invite for Republic Day celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-invites-president-trump-to-be-chief-guest-at-2019-republic-day-parade\/modi-trump\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-300359\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300359 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-696x559.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-523x420.jpg 523w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>US President Donald Trump has reportedly\u00a0turned down India\u2019s invitation to be the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The White House press secretary Sarah Sanders in August had confirmed that US President Donald Trump had received an official invitation for the Republic Day parade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to US officials, Trump would not visit India in January as the State of the Union address is scheduled in the same month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The foreign ministry has not issued any statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former US President Barack Obama was the first US President to attend the Republic Day celebrations in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has reportedly\u00a0turned down India\u2019s invitation to be the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations in 2019. The White House press secretary Sarah Sanders in August had confirmed that US President Donald Trump had received an official invitation for the Republic Day parade. According to US officials, Trump would not visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[64,574,369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304756,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304755\/revisions\/304756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}