{"id":21836,"date":"2020-08-19T19:07:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T10:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/19\/china-floods-100000-evacuated-as-waters-reach-leshan-giant-buddha-statue"},"modified":"2020-08-20T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:17:06","slug":"china-floods-100000-evacuated-as-waters-reach-giant-buddha-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21836","title":{"rendered":"China floods: 100,000 evacuated as waters reach Giant Buddha statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flooding in Sichuan province rises over feet of Leshan Giant Buddha for first time since 1949<\/p>\n<p>Floods on the upper reaches of the Yangtze river in south-west China have forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people and threatened a 1,200-year-old world heritage site.<\/p>\n<p>Staff, police and volunteers used sandbags to try to protect the 71-metre (233ft) Leshan Giant Buddha, a Unesco world heritage site in the south-west Sichuan province, as muddy flood water rose over its toes for the first time since 1949, state broadcaster CCTV reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/19\/china-floods-100000-evacuated-as-waters-reach-leshan-giant-buddha-statue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flooding in Sichuan province rises over feet of Leshan Giant Buddha for first time since 1949Floods on the upper reaches of the Yangtze river in south-west China have forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people and threatened a 1,200-year-o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,313,157,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-flooding","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","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\/21836","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21861,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions\/21861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}