{"id":23108,"date":"2020-09-25T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T04:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/magawa-the-landmine-detection-rat-given-gold-medal-for-bravery"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T04:30:21","slug":"magawa-the-landmine-detection-rat-given-gold-medal-for-bravery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23108","title":{"rendered":"Magawa the landmine detection rat given gold medal for bravery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giant African pouched rat has cleared more than 141,000 square metres of land &#8211; the equivalent of 20 football pitches<\/p>\n<p>A landmine detection rat has been awarded a gold medal for his \u201clifesaving bravery and devotion to duty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Magawa, a giant African pouched rat, has discovered 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordnance in Cambodia since he was trained by charity APOPO. He is the charity\u2019s most successful Hero Rat, having cleared more than 141,000 square metres of land \u2013 the equivalent of 20 football pitches.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/magawa-the-landmine-detection-rat-given-gold-medal-for-bravery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant African pouched rat has cleared more than 141,000 square metres of land &#8211; the equivalent of 20 football pitchesA landmine detection rat has been awarded a gold medal for his \u201clifesaving bravery and devotion to duty\u201d.Magawa, a giant African pouche&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":700,"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":[265,361,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-cambodia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108","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\/700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23109,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions\/23109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}