{"id":15847,"date":"2018-01-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/01\/05\/magh-mela-festival-commences\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T12:00:00","slug":"magh-mela-festival-commences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/01\/05\/magh-mela-festival-commences\/","title":{"rendered":"Magh Mela Festival Commences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2018\/01\/03\/hindus-in-india-immerse-in-their-holy-rivers-for-the-magh-mela-festival\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALLAHABAD, INDIA, January 3, 2017 (Religion News Service): The Magh Mela is an annual gathering of Hindu pilgrims in Allahabad, India, on the banks of the Triveni Sangam &#8212; the confluence of three rivers considered holy by Hindus: the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims make the journey over the 45-day period of Magh Mela, which translates from Hindi to mean &#8220;festival of the 11th month.&#8221; Several colorful photos at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ALLAHABAD, INDIA, January 3, 2017 (Religion News Service): The Magh Mela is an annual gathering of Hindu pilgrims in,&#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-15847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847","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=15847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}