{"id":250,"date":"2014-04-14T01:19:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T01:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.apca-usa.org\/apca\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2016-03-04T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T23:19:09","slug":"shiv-kumar-sharma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/?page_id=250","title":{"rendered":"Shiv Kumar Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sharma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-69\" alt=\"sharma\" src=\"http:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sharma.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>The name of the artist, Shiv Kumar Sharma is synonymous with the music instrument that he plays \u2013 santoor. He has transformed the little known Kashmiri folk instrument into a full fledged solo concert instrument in Indian classical music.<\/p>\n<p>Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma has been honored by the Sahitya Natak Academy and has received the Padma Shree. He has the honorary citizenship of the city of Baltimore, and has received the Indian classic music\u2019s first platinum disc for the \u2018The Call of the Valley\u2019 and has given special performances before the House of Lords in Britain and in front of the Queen of Holland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the artist, Shiv Kumar Sharma is synonymous with the music instrument that he plays \u2013 santoor. He has transformed the little known Kashmiri folk instrument into a full fledged solo concert instrument in Indian classical music. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma has been honored by the Sahitya Natak Academy and has received the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions\/316"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xnl.bae.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}