{"id":405,"date":"2013-10-17T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T10:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2013-10-17T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:17:40","slug":"1-98-million-haj-pilgrims-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/1-98-million-haj-pilgrims-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"1.98 million Haj pilgrims this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hajj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-406\" alt=\"Hajj\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hajj-300x177.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>More than 1.98 million pilgrims performed Haj this year, 37 percent fewer than last year, according to the Central Department of Statistics and Information (CDSI).<br \/>\nThere were 600,000 domestic pilgrims, mostly non-Saudis.<br \/>\nThe CDSI based its statistics on the counting of pilgrims at six Makkah entrances \u2014 Sail Road, Madinah Road, Jeddah Road, South Road, Taif Road and the old Makkah-Jeddah Road.<br \/>\nIt said that 88 percent of domestic pilgrims arrived in Makkah on Dhul Hijjah 7, 8 and 9 (Oct. 12, 13 and 14).<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/1-98-million-haj-pilgrims-this-year\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1.98 million pilgrims performed Haj this year, 37 percent fewer than last year, according to the Central Department of Statistics and Information (CDSI). There were 600,000 domestic pilgrims, mostly non-Saudis. The CDSI based its statistics on the counting of pilgrims at six Makkah entrances \u2014 Sail Road, Madinah Road, Jeddah Road, South Road, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}