{"id":7696,"date":"2009-05-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/06\/buying-gold-on-an-auspicious-day\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T12:00:00","slug":"buying-gold-on-an-auspicious-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/06\/buying-gold-on-an-auspicious-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying Gold on an Auspicious Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thelatestnews.in\/gold-sale-up-14-percent-on-akshaya-tritiya\/12072.html\">www.thelatestnews.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">INDIA, April 30, 2009: Gold-jewelery in India is often bought on an auspicious day. One such day is Akshaya Tritiya, a very favorable date according to the Hindu calendar for buying long-term assets like gold and silver, diamond and other precious stones, and real estate. This year&#8217;s Akshaya Tritiya fell on April 27 and gold sales were up 14% compared to last year, according to the World Gold Council (WGC).<\/p>\n<p>Displaying confidence in the yellow metal, consumers  worldwide invested almost  one-and-a-half billion dollars in gold on Monday, said Ajay Mitra, managing director of WGC-India. The total volume of sales is at 46 tons this year so far.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thelatestnews.in INDIA, April 30, 2009: Gold-jewelery in India is often bought on an auspicious day. One such day is Akshaya,&#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-7696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696","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=7696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}