{"id":1061,"date":"2001-07-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/07\/31\/2001-07-31-rakhi-bands-get-expensive\/"},"modified":"2001-07-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-07-31T12:00:00","slug":"2001-07-31-rakhi-bands-get-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/07\/31\/2001-07-31-rakhi-bands-get-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakhi Bands Get Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rashtriyasahara.com:8080\/sahara\/citynews\/citynews11.jsp?news_date=7\/31\/01&#038;news_city=30&#038;city_name=viOhx\u2039\u00a2GO TO SOURCE\/A\/P\nP\n\n\nCHANDIGARH, INDIA, July 31, 2001: During the annual Rakhi festival each sister ties a colored band on her brother's wrist as a symbol of her affection for him. He in turns promises his support and protection. The hand-made bands are being replaced with commercially produced ones costing US$4.50 up to $33. Some of these expensive rakhis have electronic chips which display messages. Even the cheapest are 21 cents whereas a few years ago they were just four cents. (from the Hindi)\n\/P\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}