{"id":99321,"date":"2020-08-07T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=99321"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:14:09","slug":"john-hume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/john-hume\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Nobel Laureate John Hume passed away on 3 August 2020.He was a-<br><\/strong>(a) Politician<br>(b) Litterateur<br>(c) Biologist<br>(d) None of the above<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nobel Laureate John Hume, a prominent Northern Ireland politician has died on August 3,2020, following a long period of illness. He was 83.<\/li><li>Hume was one of the highest-profile politicians in Northern Ireland for more than 30 years. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in 1970 and led the party from 1979 until 2001.<\/li><li>John Hume took considerable risks for peace by holding talks with the then leader of Sinn F\u00e9in( left-wing Irish republican political party), Gerry Adams, as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was still heavily involved in violence. The Hume-Adams talks helped laying foundation for the 1994 IRA ceasefire and later negotiations which resulted in the Good Friday Agreement.<\/li><li>Following the 1998 peace deal, John Hume was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the then leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, David Trimble.<\/li><li>He was widely admired for his steadfast commitment to peaceful, democratic politics during three decades of violence in Northern Ireland.<\/li><li>He has also received both the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Martin Luther King Award. He is the only person to receive the three major peace awards.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Amar Mani Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/News?title=Nobel-Laureate-John-Hume-died-following-long-period-of-illness&amp;id=396495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/News?title=Nobel-Laureate-John-Hume-died-following-long-period-of-illness&amp;id=396495<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Nobel Laureate John Hume passed away on 3 August 2020.He was a-(a) Politician(b) Litterateur(c) Biologist(d) None of the aboveAnswer: (a)Related facts: Nobel Laureate John Hume, a prominent Northern Ireland politician has died on August 3,2020, following a long period of illness. He was 83. Hume was one of the highest-profile politicians in Northern Ireland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":99322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[7173],"class_list":["post-99321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99323,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99321\/revisions\/99323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}