{"id":31417,"date":"2021-04-26T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T01:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/26\/turkmenistan-dedicates-holiday-to-enormous-national-dog-breed"},"modified":"2021-04-26T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T01:03:56","slug":"turkmenistan-dedicates-holiday-to-enormous-national-dog-breed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31417","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan dedicates holiday to enormous national dog breed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s president has also erected a gold statue and dedicated an ode to the Alabai dog breed<\/p>\n<p>Turkmenistan marked a new holiday on Sunday dedicated to its national \u2013 and very large \u2013 Alabai dog breed, to which its longtime leader has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/12\/turkmenistan-leader-unveils-giant-gold-statue-of-local-dog\">erected a gilded monument<\/a> and written an ode.<\/p>\n<p>The new holiday took place on the same day as a festival celebrating the Akhal-Teke horse breed, which Turkmenistan also considers part of its national heritage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/26\/turkmenistan-dedicates-holiday-to-enormous-national-dog-breed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s president has also erected a gold statue and dedicated an ode to the Alabai dog breedTurkmenistan marked a new holiday on Sunday dedicated to its national \u2013 and very large \u2013 Alabai dog breed, to which its longtime leader has already erect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2131,"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":[265,868,318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-dogs","category-turkmenistan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417","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\/2131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417\/revisions\/31418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}