{"id":75861,"date":"2019-01-15T00:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T23:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/15\/kumbh-mela-hindus-converge-for-largest-ever-human-gathering\/"},"modified":"2019-01-15T00:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T23:55:24","slug":"kumbh-mela-hindus-converge-for-largest-ever-human-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=75861","title":{"rendered":"Kumbh Mela: Hindus converge for largest-ever human gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Prayagraj, more than 120m expected for festival as much about politics as sacred watersFrom June last year, Dilip Trigunayak would stride out each morning to the banks of the Ganges and will the holy waters to recede. The clock was ticking. In six months, the floodplains where he stood would be the site of the largest human gathering in the world, probably ever.\u201cI would watch the water levels going up and down,\u201d the bureaucrat says. \u201cFrom then my anxiety started.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/15\/kumbh-mela-hindus-converge-for-largest-ever-human-gathering-prayagraj-festival\" target=\"_blank\">Kumbh Mela: Hindus converge for largest-ever human gathering<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Prayagraj, more than 120m expected for festival as much about politics as sacred watersFrom June last year, Dilip Trigunayak would stride out each morning to the banks of the Ganges and will the holy waters to recede. The clock was ticking. In six months, the floodplains where he stood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}