{"id":24706,"date":"2020-11-12T23:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/12\/turkmenistan-leader-unveils-giant-gold-statue-of-local-dog"},"modified":"2020-11-12T23:40:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T14:40:56","slug":"turkmenistan-leader-unveils-giant-gold-statue-of-local-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24706","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan leader unveils giant gold statue of local dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tribute to alabai sheepdog towers above roundabout in capital of Ashgabat<\/p>\n<p>Turkmenistan\u2019s longtime president has unveiled a huge gilded statue of a dog on a busy roundabout in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has also written an ode to the local alabai breed and given one of the dogs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2017\/oct\/20\/turkmenistan-gift-vladimir-putin-puppy-dog-gurbanguly-berdymukhamedov-verny\">to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/12\/turkmenistan-leader-unveils-giant-gold-statue-of-local-dog\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribute to alabai sheepdog towers above roundabout in capital of AshgabatTurkmenistan\u2019s longtime president has unveiled a huge gilded statue of a dog on a busy roundabout in the capital.Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has also written an ode to the local al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1686,"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":[265,868,284,318,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-dogs","category-pets","category-turkmenistan","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\/24706","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\/1686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24707,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/revisions\/24707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}