{"id":14745,"date":"2016-03-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/03\/10\/almost-two-million-pilgrims-take-holy-bath-on-maha-shivaratri-at-haridwar\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T12:00:00","slug":"almost-two-million-pilgrims-take-holy-bath-on-maha-shivaratri-at-haridwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/03\/10\/almost-two-million-pilgrims-take-holy-bath-on-maha-shivaratri-at-haridwar\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Two Million Pilgrims Take Holy Bath on Maha Shivaratri At Haridwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/54.169.74.217\/news\/uttarakhand\/18-lakh-take-holy-dip-on-shivratri\/205843.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HARIDWAR, INDIA , March 9, 2016 (Tribune News Service): Nearly two million pilgrims took a holy bath in the Ganga on the occasion of Shivratri and fifth festive bath of Ardh Kumbh here today. Pilgrims in large numbers thronged the sanctum-sanctorum of Braham Kund, Har-ki-Pauri and adjacent Ganga ghats from early morning hours. The huge attendance is a result of the Ardh or &#8220;half&#8221; Kumbha Mela taking place here. This comes six years from the full Kumbha Mela which is on a 12 year cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source HARIDWAR, INDIA , March 9, 2016 (Tribune News Service): Nearly two million pilgrims took a holy bath 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-14745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745","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=14745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}