{"id":24745,"date":"2020-11-13T23:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/india-diwali-festival-covid-smog"},"modified":"2020-11-13T23:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:22:44","slug":"shadow-cast-across-india-as-diwali-festival-hit-by-covid-and-smog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24745","title":{"rendered":"Shadow cast across India as Diwali festival hit by Covid \u2013 and smog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People encouraged to stay at home for Hindu festival with Delhi particularly affected<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Diwali celebrations in India have taken a more sombre tone this year, as the double spectres of the pandemic and pollution have cast a shadow over festivities.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu festival of light is the most important celebration of the year for many in India and this weekend would usually be marked by raucous parties and fireworks displays.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/india-diwali-festival-covid-smog\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People encouraged to stay at home for Hindu festival with Delhi particularly affectedCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDiwali celebrations in India have taken a more sombre tone this year, as the double spectres of the pandemi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,1066,353,1757,62,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-coronavirus","category-delhi","category-diwali","category-india","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24757,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745\/revisions\/24757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}