{"id":2651,"date":"2007-01-15T02:01:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T02:01:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-15T02:01:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T02:01:52","slug":"Aishwarya-Rai-and-Abhishek-Bachchan-are-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=2651","title":{"rendered":"Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan are engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/41943727@N00\/358376755\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/157\/358376755_912083454d_m.jpg\" alt=\"2007_01_15t063521_450x332_us_india_bollywood_engagement1\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>The hush-hush romance of Rai and Bachchan, the son of legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, had transfixed the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry, despite denials by the couple of sharing anything more than a healthy friendship. On Sunday evening &#8212; one of the most auspicious days in the Hindu calendar &#8212; Bachchan and Rai were engaged in a private ceremony in which Abhishek reportedly placed a diamond ring on his girlfriend&#39;s finger. No date has been set yet. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070115\/people_nm\/india_bollywood_engagement1_dc\" title=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070115\/people_nm\/india_bollywood_engagement1_dc\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070115\/people_nm\/india_bollywood_engagement1_dc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hush-hush romance of Rai and Bachchan, the son of legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, had transfixed the Mumbai-based Hindi film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":72523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO-150x139.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO-130x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO-150x139.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"njaiyo","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The hush-hush romance of Rai and Bachchan, the son of legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, had transfixed the Mumbai-based Hindi film","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":143,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg",213,139,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO.jpg",213,139,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yAHOO-150x139.jpg",150,139,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"njaiyo","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=6"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}