{"id":27198,"date":"2021-01-22T02:47:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/21\/kamala-harris-india-uncle-gopalan-balachandran-visit-celebrations"},"modified":"2021-01-22T02:47:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:47:52","slug":"kamala-harriss-indian-uncle-plans-us-visit-amid-global-celebrations-for-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27198","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris&#8217;s Indian uncle plans US visit amid global celebrations for VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gopalan Balachandran said he wants to celebrate with her in person once it\u2019s safe to travel<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris\u2019s Indian uncle plans to visit the United States to congratulate her once he receives a Covid-19 vaccine, he said on Thursday, after his niece became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/20\/kamala-harris-sworn-in-vice-president\">first woman, first Black American and first Asian American<\/a> to hold national office after being sworn in as vice-president.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/17\/kamala-harris-joe-biden-donald-trump-biography-dan-morain\">Kamala\u2019s Way review: Harris as symbol of hope \u2013 and hard politics<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/21\/kamala-harris-india-uncle-gopalan-balachandran-visit-celebrations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gopalan Balachandran said he wants to celebrate with her in person once it\u2019s safe to travelKamala Harris\u2019s Indian uncle plans to visit the United States to congratulate her once he receives a Covid-19 vaccine, he said on Thursday, after his niece becam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,1241,62,1454,1639,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-caribbean","category-india","category-jamaica","category-kamala-harris","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27202,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198\/revisions\/27202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}