{"id":10727,"date":"2011-12-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/28\/record-number-of-pilgrims-visits-vaishno-devi\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T12:00:00","slug":"record-number-of-pilgrims-visits-vaishno-devi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/28\/record-number-of-pilgrims-visits-vaishno-devi\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Number of Pilgrims Visits Vaishno Devi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/news\/jammu-and-kashmir\/record-pilgrims-visit-vaishno-devi_748633.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JAMMU, INDIA, December 26, 2011 (Zeenews): A record number of 9.9 million pilgrims from India and abroad visited the Hindu shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in Jammu region this year, an official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) said the number of pilgrims has been increasing by about a million every year in the last four years. &#8220;We are any time about to touch the figure of 10 million pilgrims,&#8221; Board additional chief executive officer MK Bhandari said. <\/p>\n<p>The number of pilgrims in 2010 was 8.75 million. <\/p>\n<p>The board was formed in 1986 to manage the shrine. &#8220;That time the number of pilgrims visiting the shrine was 1.3 million,&#8221; Bhandari said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source JAMMU, INDIA, December 26, 2011 (Zeenews): A record number of 9.9 million pilgrims from India and abroad visited the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","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-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","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=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}