{"id":9883,"date":"2011-02-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/02\/13\/magh-mela-attracts-35-million-devotees\/"},"modified":"2011-02-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T12:00:00","slug":"magh-mela-attracts-35-million-devotees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/02\/13\/magh-mela-attracts-35-million-devotees\/","title":{"rendered":"Magh Mela Attracts 3.5 Million Devotees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLAHABAD, INDIA, February 2, 2011: More than 3.5 Million pilgrims and devotees from different walks of life took a holy dip at Sangam on the occasion of the Magh Mela here on Tuesday. Devotees mainly from Maharashtra and Gujarat took the holy dip in wee hours of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ratna, a student from Satara (Maharashtra) says that along with her, parents and neighbors had arrived here to take bath at the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati.<\/p>\n<p>The Magh Mela is also known as mini Kumbh Mela and is held in Magh month, following the traditional Hindu calendar of North India.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/allahabad\/35-lakh-take-holy-dip-on-Basant-Panchami\/articleshow\/7455091.cms'>Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALLAHABAD, INDIA, February 2, 2011: More than 3.5 Million pilgrims and devotees from different walks of life took a holy,&#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-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","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=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}