{"id":329760,"date":"2020-12-25T04:54:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T04:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329760"},"modified":"2020-12-25T04:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T04:54:25","slug":"president-kovind-pm-modi-greet-people-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-greet-people-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, PM Modi greet people on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305552 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi.jpg 767w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-696x461.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-634x420.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted people on Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMerry Christmas to everyone! I hope this festival nurtures peace and prosperity, and helps strengthen harmony in society. Let us follow Christ&#8217;s teachings of love, compassion, and charity, committing ourselves to the welfare of our society and nation,\u201d Kovind tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi said the life and principles of Lord Christ gives strength to millions across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMerry Christmas! The life and principles of Lord Christ gives strength to millions across the world. May his path keep showing the way in building a just and inclusive society. May everybody be happy and healthy,\u201d the Prime Minister tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu also tweeted, \u201cMy heartiest greetings to the citizens of our country on the auspicious occasion of Christmas today. As we celebrate the birth of Lord Jesus Christ we must also follow the virtues of compassion, kindness and forgiveness shown by him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted people on Christmas. \u201cMerry Christmas to everyone! I hope this festival nurtures peace and prosperity, and helps strengthen harmony in society. Let us follow Christ&#8217;s teachings of love, compassion, and charity, committing ourselves to the welfare of our society and nation,\u201d Kovind tweeted. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10309,316,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329760"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329761,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329760\/revisions\/329761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}