{"id":20742,"date":"2020-07-20T12:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T03:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/20\/china-blows-up-dam-on-yangtze-river-tributary-to-ease-flooding"},"modified":"2020-07-20T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T03:50:40","slug":"china-blows-up-dam-on-yangtze-river-tributary-to-ease-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20742","title":{"rendered":"China blows up dam on Yangtze river tributary to ease flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explosives used to destroy Chu river dam in central Anhui province in bid to bring water levels down <\/p>\n<p>Authorities in central China have blasted a dam to release surging waters behind it amid widespread flooding that has claimed scores of lives.<\/p>\n<p>The dam on the Chu river in Anhui province \u2013 a tributary of the Yangtze river \u2013 was destroyed with explosives on Sunday morning, state broadcaster CCTV reported, after which the water level was expected to drop by 70cm (2ft).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/20\/china-blows-up-dam-on-yangtze-river-tributary-to-ease-flooding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explosives used to destroy Chu river dam in central Anhui province in bid to bring water levels down Authorities in central China have blasted a dam to release surging waters behind it amid widespread flooding that has claimed scores of lives.The dam o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20743,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742\/revisions\/20743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}