{"id":53484,"date":"2015-06-29T01:17:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53484"},"modified":"2015-06-29T01:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T17:18:48","slug":"dalai-lama-joins-patti-smith-on-glastonbury-festival-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/29\/dalai-lama-joins-patti-smith-on-glastonbury-festival-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama joins Patti Smith on Glastonbury Festival stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:78.451178% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/478866694?et=9n0EfMXUTLZL5y6ZuJDL8g&#038;viewMoreLink=off&#038;sig=PRuN97JIraHVwO2e2TKTJqndp_UQaFxZ1kwWvW_FdqU=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"466\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/478866694\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; One of the most talked-about appearances at Britain&#8217;s Glastonbury music festival wasn&#8217;t a singer or rocker &#8211; it was the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n<p>The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader joined singer Patti Smith on stage Sunday, where she led the crowd to sing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to mark his 80th birthday next week. She then presented him with a birthday cake.<\/p>\n<p>The spiritual leader, who appeared at the festival for the first time, praised Smith&#8217;s white hair, voice and &#8220;physical action,&#8221; saying she was &#8220;very beautiful, very forceful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He earlier spoke on a small platform about the need for a moral education at schools and universities. The Nobel Peace Prize winner also praised Glastonbury a &#8220;festival of people, not politicians and governments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He earlier dismissed as a &#8220;usual response&#8221; criticism from the Chinese foreign affairs ministry, which said it was firmly opposed to any organization that gave a platform to his &#8220;anti-China separatist activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever I meet people or an organization, the Chinese officials always protest,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They consider me as a demon so they have to oppose the demon&#8217;s activities, although I&#8217;m not seeking independence or separation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com LONDON &#8212; One of the most talked-about appearances at Britain&#8217;s Glastonbury music festival wasn&#8217;t a singer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":53485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}