{"id":1982,"date":"2013-02-12T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2025-02-13T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:19:18","slug":"romancing-the-rain-holiday-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/romancing-the-rain-holiday-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Romancing the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Romancing the Rain<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8211; Mr. Arvind Kumar<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1983\" title=\"Trip to mahabaleshwar from Pune during Rainfall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Trip-to-mahabaleshwar-from-Pune-Rainfall.jpg\" alt=\"Trip to mahabaleshwar from during Rainfall\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the most memorable dates of my life was, 13th August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On that date, my wife, seven year old son and I travelled from Pune to Mahabaleshwar in a car. \u00a0It was during the \u2018khoobsurat\u2019 (beautiful) monsoon season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heavy rainfall was forecasted on that day. But still we thought of making the trip. As predicted, a downpour started as soon as we covered distance of half-a-kilometer. We decided to sing famous \u2018rain\u2019 songs. We started with \u201cPyar Hua Iqrar Hua\u201d from Shree 420, where legendary pair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/romance-never-dies-golden-melodies-of-yesteryears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raj and Nargis<\/a>, huddled beneath an umbrella. Both of us got down and stood in the torrent, posing with a black umbrella and my son gleefully took a snap of us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Throughout the way, we enjoyed the enchanting rain by singing various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/top-five-romantic-pairs-and-their-best-duets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">romantic duets<\/a>, having hot tea, listening to radio, playing with our kid, etc. The trip was excellent and magical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whenever I look at our own \u201cShree 420\u201d snap, I relive those wonderful monsoon moments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0This moment was shared by\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Arvind Kumar\u00a0 in Sterling Holidays OMG! Holiday Moments Contest on Facebook. Visit our Facebook fanpage:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sterlingholidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> www.facebook.com\/sterlingholidays<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romancing the Rain &#8211; Mr. Arvind Kumar One of the most memorable dates of my life was, 13th August 2011. On that date, my wife, seven year old son and I travelled from Pune to Mahabaleshwar in a car. \u00a0It was during the \u2018khoobsurat\u2019 (beautiful) monsoon season. Heavy rainfall was forecasted on that day. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/romancing-the-rain-holiday-moments\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":6824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87],"tags":[1636,1637,1638,1639,1640,1641,1642,1643,1644,1645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17466,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/17466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}