{"id":6373,"date":"2019-08-08T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T01:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/indian-transgender-couple-tie-knot-in-landmark-rainbow-wedding"},"modified":"2019-08-08T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T01:07:51","slug":"indian-transgender-couple-tie-knot-in-landmark-rainbow-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6373","title":{"rendered":"Indian transgender couple tie knot in landmark &#8216;rainbow wedding&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bride and groom, who both underwent sex reassignment, comes as lower house of parliament votes to enshrine transgender rights<\/p>\n<p>An Indian transgender couple who both underwent sex re-assignment have tied the knot in a traditional Bengali ceremony, in what is believed to be the state\u2019s first \u201crainbow wedding\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by family and friends, the bride, Tista Das, 38, and groom, Dipan Chakravarthy, 40, took part in rituals in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/indian-transgender-couple-tie-knot-in-landmark-rainbow-wedding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bride and groom, who both underwent sex reassignment, comes as lower house of parliament votes to enshrine transgender rightsAn Indian transgender couple who both underwent sex re-assignment have tied the knot in a traditional Bengali ceremony, in what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[62,79,61,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6374,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions\/6374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}