{"id":32274,"date":"2021-05-20T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/stench-death-pervades-rural-india-ganges-swells-covid-victims"},"modified":"2021-05-20T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:00:23","slug":"stench-of-death-pervades-rural-india-as-ganges-swells-with-covid-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32274","title":{"rendered":"Stench of death pervades rural India as Ganges swells with Covid victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stigma and cost of wood leave families with no choice but to immerse their dead in river <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a time before when the Ganges was \u201cswollen with dead bodies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 1918, when the great flu pandemic swept through India and killed an estimated 18 million people, the water of this river \u2013 upon which so many lives depended \u2013 was filled with the stench of death.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/stench-death-pervades-rural-india-ganges-swells-covid-victims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stigma and cost of wood leave families with no choice but to immerse their dead in river Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThere was a time before when the Ganges was \u201cswollen with dead bodies\u201d.In 1918, when the great flu pand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"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":[1066,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","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\/32274","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\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32275,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32274\/revisions\/32275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}