{"id":16608,"date":"2019-10-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/10\/11\/india-s-slowing-economy-hits-hindu-festival-celebrations\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:00:00","slug":"india-s-slowing-economy-hits-hindu-festival-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/10\/11\/india-s-slowing-economy-hits-hindu-festival-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Slowing Economy Hits Hindu Festival Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/asia\/india-s-slowing-economy-hits-hindu-festival-celebrations-video-11986330\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 10, 2019 (CNA video report): A major religious festival in India has seen a tightening of purse strings this year. Durga Puja, a Hindu festival marking the victory of the Goddess Durga over a demon king, is observed in many parts of India. And while celebrations are often grand, budgets this year have been low on the back of a slowing economy. Lavish tents holding intricately designed statues of the Goddess are set up with a budget for each running close to US$1 million. Costs have never been a factor, with millions of devotees visiting the pandals, companies have always had reason to extend sponsorship in exchange for branding and product displays. But, it&#8217;s different this year. With the economy at its slowest in six years companies have tightened their purse strings.<\/p>\n<p>View this short TV report at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 10, 2019 (CNA video report): A major religious festival in India has seen a tightening,&#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-16608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608","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=16608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}