{"id":7036,"date":"2014-11-17T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/11\/17\/parade-held-to-celebrate-nagar-kirtan\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:12:30","slug":"parade-held-to-celebrate-nagar-kirtan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/17\/parade-held-to-celebrate-nagar-kirtan\/","title":{"rendered":"Parade Held to Celebrate Nagar Kirtan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Thousands Join Smethwick Procession <\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" width=\"458\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nagar-Kirtan-Smethwick-458x191.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sikh\u2019s across the UK celebrated the birth of the religion\u2019s founder &#8211; the first Guru Nanak Dev Ji., by a brightly coloured procession.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>In Smethwick the Nagar Kirtan made its way\u00a0from West Bromwich\u00a0High Street to the Guru Nanak Gurdwara with eight of Sandwell\u2019s Sikh temples taking part in the parade. The beat of loud drums and was led by a decorated float carrying the Sikh Holy Scriptures, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Gurdwaras Sandwell Parmjit Singh Dhillon, Coordinator of the Council of Sikh. said: \u201cA great deal of work has gone into organising this event and I am grateful for the support of the members of the entire local community Sikh and non-Sikh, all related authorities, including Sandwell Council\u00a0and\u00a0West Midlands Police.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe Nagar Kirtan will be a very joyous occasion and I hope we will be able to celebrate this event with minimum disruption to residents, business owners, services and other road users.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands Join Smethwick Procession &#13; Sikh\u2019s across the UK celebrated the birth of the religion\u2019s founder &#8211; the first Guru Nanak Dev Ji., by a brightly coloured procession. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; In Smethwick the Nagar Kirtan made its way\u00a0from West Bromwich\u00a0High Street to the Guru Nanak Gurdwara with eight of Sandwell\u2019s Sikh temples taking part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}