{"id":1116,"date":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/17\/2001-08-17-grooms-lose-along-with-dot-coms\/"},"modified":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","slug":"2001-08-17-grooms-lose-along-with-dot-coms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/17\/2001-08-17-grooms-lose-along-with-dot-coms\/","title":{"rendered":"Grooms Lose Along With Dot-Coms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: India Tribune<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BANGALORE, INDIA, August 11, 2001: Software engineers here used to have their pick of brides in the very competitive arranged marriage market. No more. With the fall of the dot-coms worldwide has gone the premium formerly placed on the engineers. Said one engineer, &#8220;For the past four months, I have seen the majority of parents hesitating to marry off their daughters to a software engineer as they are not sure whether we will have our jobs next year.&#8221; One marriage bureau has a backlog of 500 dot-com professionals on its books. Said one manager, &#8220;Previously the information technology sector was hot, now brides are shifting to management guys, chartered accountants and company secretaries.&#8221; Returned engineers from America, having lost their visas with their company&#8217;s downfall, are facing the same problem in finding wives.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: India Tribune BANGALORE, INDIA, August 11, 2001: Software engineers here used to have their pick of brides in 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-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","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=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}