{"id":6603,"date":"2016-08-24T09:56:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T09:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T09:56:52","slug":"us-diwali-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/us-diwali-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"US Diwali stamp\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Postal Service <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_55083332\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday<\/span><\/span> said it will issue a Diwali postage stamp, meeting one of the long pending demands of Indian-American community here.<\/p>\n<p>The Diwali stamp is being issued as a \u201cforever\u201d stamp, the US Postal Service said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The stamp design, unveiled by the US Postal Service (USPS), is a photograph featuring a traditional diya (oil lamp) lit in a sparkling gold background.<\/p>\n<p>Sally Andersen-Bruce of New Milford, Connecticut, photographed the diya.<\/p>\n<div>Greg Breeding of Charlottesville, Virginia, designed the stamp and William J Gicker from Washington postal service was the project\u2019s art director, a statement said.<\/div>\n<p>The first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony will take place at the Indian Consulate in New York City on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_55083333\"><span class=\"aQJ\">October 5<\/span><\/span>, the USPS said.<\/p>\n<p>Hinduism was the only major world religion, for which the USPS had not issued a postage stamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Postal Service on Tuesday said it will issue a Diwali postage stamp, meeting one of the long pending demands of Indian-American community here. The Diwali stamp is being issued as a \u201cforever\u201d stamp, the US Postal Service said in a statement. The stamp design, unveiled by the US Postal Service (USPS), is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[2762,2764,2763,2761],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-diwali-postage-stamp","tag-hinduism","tag-indian-american-community","tag-us-postal-service"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}