{"id":17470,"date":"2021-07-27T01:59:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T01:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=17470"},"modified":"2021-07-27T01:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T01:59:57","slug":"my-familys-covid-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2021\/07\/27\/my-familys-covid-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"My Family\u2019s Covid Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KAUAI, HAWAII, July 20, 2021 (Hinduism Today by Shaina Grover, 16, California): Hundreds of guests, enough food to last a lifetime, countless celebrations and traditions to follow, elaborate decorations and who knows how many flowers. These are probably just a few of the things that pop into your head when you encounter the words \u201cIndian wedding.\u201d You probably don\u2019t imagine a giant TV with people\u2019s faces on it via zoom.com. But unusual circumstances call for unusual responses.<br><br>In America, it is popular to host a Hindu wedding at a grand hall rented out for the weekend. It\u2019s probably not held inside your house. During the Covid-19 pandemic, my Uncle Lokesh got married. Where? In my backyard. You might think it was a small simple wedding, but that\u2019s where you\u2019d be wrong. My mom, dad, grandparents, aunt-to-be, uncle, sister and I were able to keep the grand feeling of a Hindu wedding with 200 guests, albeit mostly remote, while still taking the necessary safety precautions and inviting no additional in-person guests (except for the priest) for the three-day affair.<br><br>More at \u201csource\u201d here\u201d<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/magazine\/jul-aug-sept-2021\/my-familys-covid-wedding\/\n\">https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/magazine\/jul-aug-sept-2021\/my-familys-covid-wedding\/<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAUAI, HAWAII, July 20, 2021 (Hinduism Today by Shaina Grover, 16, California): Hundreds of guests, enough food to last a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17488,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470\/revisions\/17488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}