{"id":44901,"date":"2026-04-08T16:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44901"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:08:31","slug":"are-indian-weddings-driving-families-into-debt-for-social-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44901","title":{"rendered":"Are Indian weddings driving families into debt for social status?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>Jasveer Singh described the trend as \u201cfinancial self-destruction,\u201d claiming that weddings had increasingly become performances for social validation rather than genuine celebrations.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/iol.co.za\/thepost\/news\/2026-04-08-are-indian-weddings-driving-families-into-debt-for-social-status\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasveer Singh described the trend as \u201cfinancial self-destruction,\u201d claiming that weddings had increasingly become performances for social validation rather than genuine celebrations. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}