{"id":40777,"date":"2022-01-18T10:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/its-a-total-disaster-omicron-lays-waste-to-indias-huge-wedding-season"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:03:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:03:16","slug":"its-a-total-disaster-omicron-lays-waste-to-indias-huge-wedding-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40777","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a total disaster\u2019: Omicron lays waste to India\u2019s huge wedding season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Distraught couples face prospect of cutting guest lists from more than 600 people down to just 20 after coronavirus variant took hold<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Until 28 December, Heena Vashisht was a happy bride-to-be. The 28-year-old was pleased her family had put in place early all the arrangements for her wedding on 10 February, right down to the last candle. But her plans have been shredded by India\u2019s Omicron surge. The nuptials can go ahead in New Delhi as planned, but only if she cuts her guest list down from 650 to 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy own immediate family is 80. How can I reduce the guests to 20? The tension in my family is unbearable right now. No one knows what to do and my mother\u2019s blood pressure has shot up with all the tension,\u201d says Vashisht.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/its-a-total-disaster-omicron-lays-waste-to-indias-huge-wedding-season\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distraught couples face prospect of cutting guest lists from more than 600 people down to just 20 after coronavirus variant took holdSee all our coronavirus coverageUntil 28 December, Heena Vashisht was a happy bride-to-be. The 28-year-old was pleased &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"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":[1066,62,76,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-marriage","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40777","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40778,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40777\/revisions\/40778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}