{"id":179,"date":"2004-08-11T10:46:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T15:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=179"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:17","slug":"the_legend_cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/the_legend_cont\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my entry earlier this week titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000144.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Legend of Dilip Singh<\/a> that mentioned the first Indian congressman in the U.S.?  Well <a href=\"http:\/\/desitalk.newsindia-times.com\/2004\/08\/13\/focus12-bil2.html\">the story continues<\/a> as reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/desitalk.newsindia-times.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">desi-Talk NY News-India Times<\/a> with the announcement that a building in California will also be named for him:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n\nI can let you know that we hope to have passed this year a bill that will rename a building in California in honor of former Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, the first Indian-American ever elected to Congress. We are moving very, very quickly on that and we hope with the help of Congressman Bob Filner we have identified a building. We are working that process through. And we hope to just spread the word; we need the entire California delegation behind it to support it.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Anyone know what building in California they have in mind?  Also why is a NY congressman (Co-Chair of Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, Congressman Joe Crowley (D-NY)) the main one behind the push?  Shouldn&#8217;t this suggestion have originated from California?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my entry earlier this week titled The Legend of Dilip Singh that mentioned the first Indian congressman in the U.S.? Well the story continues as reported in desi-Talk NY News-India Times with the announcement that a building in California &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/the_legend_cont\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}