{"id":1461,"date":"2016-11-28T17:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2016-11-28T17:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:13:05","slug":"day-of-thanks-celebrates-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"Day of Thanks celebrates diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1462\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1462\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/101-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/101-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/101-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/101-1024x778.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/101-1200x912.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/101.jpg 1855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Loudoun&#8217;s Sikh community served a vegetarian dinner at the Day of Thanks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About 250 Loudoun County residents from an array of local religious groups \u2014 Baha\u2019i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Unitarian Universalist \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudouns-annual-day-of-thanks-celebrates-the-countys-diversity\/2016\/11\/25\/ace61b54-b18b-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html#comments\" target=\"_blank\">came together Nov. 20 for an evening of food, fellowship, prayer and entertainment<\/a>. Organized by Loudoun Interfaith BRIDGES, the eighth annual Day of Thanks was held at Crossroads United Methodist Church in Ashburn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks\u201d was the theme, but the event was also a celebration of Loudoun\u2019s cultural diversity. Many of the organizers and guests emphasized the importance of people from different faith groups coming together to gain understanding and build relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudouns-annual-day-of-thanks-celebrates-the-countys-diversity\/2016\/11\/25\/ace61b54-b18b-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html#comments\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, Nov. 27, 2016<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1463\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1463\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/401-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/401-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/401-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/401-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/401-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Day of Thanks celebration ended with a candle-lighting ceremony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 250 Loudoun County residents from an array of local religious groups \u2014 Baha\u2019i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Unitarian Universalist \u2014 came together Nov. 20 for an evening of food, fellowship, prayer and entertainment. Organized by Loudoun Interfaith BRIDGES, the eighth annual Day of Thanks was held at Crossroads United Methodist Church &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day of Thanks celebrates diversity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,14,3,60,80],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-ashburn","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-religion","tag-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}