{"id":33224,"date":"2021-06-17T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/baby-girl-found-in-box-floating-on-ganges"},"modified":"2021-06-18T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:05:48","slug":"baby-girl-found-alive-and-well-in-box-floating-on-ganges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33224","title":{"rendered":"Indian boatman tells of finding baby in a box floating on Ganges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gullu Chaudhary rescued 21-day-old girl he discovered in a closed wooden box on the river<\/p>\n<p>A boatman in India has rescued a 21-day-old baby girl found floating in a closed wooden box near the banks of Ganges river in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>The box was decorated with images of Hindu deities and the baby was wrapped in a red cloth. Incense sticks used in Hindu worship were placed besides the child\u2019s horoscope chart and a piece of paper reading \u201cDaughter of the Ganga\u201d, the Hindi word for the holy river. <\/p>\n<p>Gullu Chaudhary was at the water\u2019s edge on Monday when he and others in Ghazipur town heard a baby crying.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/baby-girl-found-in-box-floating-on-ganges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gullu Chaudhary rescued 21-day-old girl he discovered in a closed wooden box on the riverA boatman in India has rescued a 21-day-old baby girl found floating in a closed wooden box near the banks of Ganges river in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2265,"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":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/33224","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\/2265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33252,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33224\/revisions\/33252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}