{"id":72075,"date":"2025-02-14T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72075"},"modified":"2025-02-14T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:39:56","slug":"more-than-500-million-take-holy-dip-in-indias-maha-kumbh-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/14\/more-than-500-million-take-holy-dip-in-indias-maha-kumbh-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 million take &#8216;holy dip&#8217; in India&#8217;s Maha Kumbh festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1z3MwO.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Devotees gather to take a dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers with the mythical invisible Saraswati river, to mark Maghi Purnima, one of the auspicious days during the &quot;Maha Kumbh Mela&quot;, or the Great Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, India, February 12, 2025. REUTERS\/Ritesh Shukla\/File Photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 500 million people have taken a &#8220;holy dip&#8221; in sacred river waters in north India over the last four weeks as part of the Hindu Maha Kumbh festival, authorities said on Friday, greater than the population of most countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/more-than-500-million-take-holy-dip-in-india-s-maha-kumbh-festival\/ar-AA1z3FCk?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=769d7acb19904d6bdd1721dd6a37e124&amp;ei=61\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 500 million people have taken a &#8220;holy dip&#8221; in sacred river waters in north India over the last four weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Indian-religion-crowd.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72077,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72075\/revisions\/72077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}