{"id":26583,"date":"2021-01-10T20:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T11:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/10\/pakistan-power-gradually-being-restored-after-nationwide-blackout"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T11:40:59","slug":"nationwide-power-blackout-plunges-pakistan-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26583","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide power blackout plunges Pakistan  into darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second major incident in less than three years caused by engineering fault, says PM<\/p>\n<p>Power is gradually being restored to major cities across Pakistan after it was hit by a massive electricity blackout.<\/p>\n<p>The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is a complex \u2013 and delicate \u2013 web, and a problem in one section of the grid can lead to cascading breakdowns countrywide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/10\/pakistan-power-gradually-being-restored-after-nationwide-blackout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second major incident in less than three years caused by engineering fault, says PMPower is gradually being restored to major cities across Pakistan after it was hit by a massive electricity blackout.The electricity distribution system in the nation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1804,"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":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/26583","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\/1804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26599,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26583\/revisions\/26599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}