{"id":24928,"date":"2020-11-19T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T02:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/pike-river-mine-disaster-10-years-on-families-mark-painful-anniversary"},"modified":"2020-11-19T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T02:46:30","slug":"pike-river-mine-disaster-10-years-on-families-mark-painful-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24928","title":{"rendered":"Pike river mine disaster: 10 years on,  families mark painful anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand and loved ones of the 29 miners killed mourn as efforts continue to recover their bodies <\/p>\n<p>It has been a decade since an explosion at New Zealand\u2019s Pike River mine killed 29 miners, and for the family left behind the wounds remain raw and open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes it feels like lifetimes and other times it feels like it was yesterday,\u201d Sonya Rockhouse, who lost her son in the explosion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/audio\/player?audio_id=2018773450\">told RNZ<\/a>. \u201cThe only thing I have noticed since time has gone on is that I am starting to forget what my son\u2019s voice sounded like \u2013 which is disconcerting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/pike-river-mine-disaster-10-years-on-families-mark-painful-anniversary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand and loved ones of the 29 miners killed mourn as efforts continue to recover their bodies It has been a decade since an explosion at New Zealand\u2019s Pike River mine killed 29 miners, and for the family left behind the wounds remain raw and ope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"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":[41,730,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-mining","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24928","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24928\/revisions\/24929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}