{"id":8709,"date":"2010-01-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/31\/kumbha-mela-beckons-over-republic-days-long-weekend\/"},"modified":"2010-01-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T12:00:00","slug":"kumbha-mela-beckons-over-republic-days-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/31\/kumbha-mela-beckons-over-republic-days-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumbha Mela Beckons Over Republic Days&#8217; Long Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/lite.epaper.timesofindia.com\/mobile.aspx?article=yes&#038;pageid=62&#038;edlabel=CAP&#038;mydateHid=24-01-2010&#038;pubname=&#038;edname=&#038;articleid=Ar06200&#038;format=&#038;publabel=TOI\">lite.epaper.timesofindia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 27, 2010: Republic Day, which falls on a Tuesday, has enthused Delhi residents to draw up short getaway plans, and many are taking this as an opportunity to visit the Maha Kumbh in Haridwar. There has been a jump of about 10 per cent in the holiday bookings for the coming weekend. A number of people are opting to take official leave on January 25 so as to enjoy a four-day getaway to some place nearby or venture somewhere further, says Gour Kanjilal, an official of the Indian Association of Tour Operators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Haridwar in Uttarakhand has been booked to the hilt thanks to the Maha Kumbh Mela. Three-night packages worth Rs 15,000 are all sold out,&#8221; said Mr. Kanjilal. The Maha Kumbh, a religious fair, occurs once in 12 years and has few parallels. While the fair will be on till April 28, a number of people, especially office-goers, have decided to take advantage of the weekend and visit the fair now. Aruna Sharma, a banker who is planning to take her mother to the religious gathering over the weekend said, &#8220;For office-goers, getting leave is difficult. Since my mother wanted to visit the Maha Kumbh, I managed to get a day off on January 25. It has worked out as a good four-day getaway for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: lite.epaper.timesofindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 27, 2010: Republic Day, which falls on a Tuesday, has enthused Delhi residents to,&#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-8709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709","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=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}