{"id":21844,"date":"2020-08-19T21:18:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T12:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/aug\/19\/china-floods-leshan-giant-buddha-statue-risk-torrential-rainfall-video"},"modified":"2020-08-19T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T12:18:35","slug":"china-floods-leshan-giant-buddha-statue-at-risk-after-torrential-rainfall-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21844","title":{"rendered":"China floods: Leshan Giant Buddha statue at risk after torrential rainfall \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floods on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people and threatened a 1,200-year-old Unesco world heritage site, the Leshan Giant Buddha.<\/p>\n<p>Staff, police and volunteers used sandbags to try to protect the 71-metre (233ft) statue in Sichuan province as muddy flood water rose over its toes for the first time since 1949, the state broadcaster CCTV reported<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/19\/china-floods-100000-evacuated-as-waters-reach-leshan-giant-buddha-statue\">China floods: 100,000 evacuated as waters reach Giant Buddha statue<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/aug\/19\/china-floods-leshan-giant-buddha-statue-risk-torrential-rainfall-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floods on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people and threatened a 1,200-year-old Unesco world heritage site, the Leshan Giant Buddha.Staff, police and volunteers used sandbags to try to p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21845,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions\/21845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}