{"id":21440,"date":"2020-08-06T22:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/06\/monsoon-rains-driven-by-high-winds-bring-flooding-misery-to-mumbai"},"modified":"2020-08-06T22:50:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:50:43","slug":"monsoon-rains-driven-by-high-winds-bring-flooding-misery-to-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21440","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon rains driven by high winds bring flooding misery to Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s commercial capital grinds to a halt after heaviest August rainfall in 47 years causes widespread flooding<\/p>\n<p>The heaviest monsoon downpour in nearly 50 years has brought Mumbai to a standstill, with stranded passengers at railway stations having to be rescued by dinghies from waist-high water.<\/p>\n<p>People who live in areas normally unaffected by the annual monsoon flooding looked out from their high-rise flats at new swirling rivers outside caused by the heaviest single day\u2019s rain recorded in August in 47 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/06\/monsoon-rains-driven-by-high-winds-bring-flooding-misery-to-mumbai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s commercial capital grinds to a halt after heaviest August rainfall in 47 years causes widespread floodingThe heaviest monsoon downpour in nearly 50 years has brought Mumbai to a standstill, with stranded passengers at railway stations having to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1349,"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":[65,313,59,62,454,157,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-india","category-mumbai","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440","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\/1349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21441,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions\/21441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}