{"id":33276,"date":"2021-06-19T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/19\/star-indian-athlete-milkha-singh-dies-after-catching-covid-aged-91"},"modified":"2021-06-19T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T09:50:26","slug":"indian-athletics-star-milkha-singh-dies-after-catching-covid-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33276","title":{"rendered":"Indian athletics star Milkha Singh dies after catching Covid, aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi leads tributes to \u2018Flying Sikh\u2019, who won India\u2019s first Commonwealth gold in 1958<\/p>\n<p>Milkha Singh, one of India\u2019s first sport superstars, has died of Covid-related complications at the age of 91.<\/p>\n<p>Singh, who was popularly known as the Flying Sikh, died late on Friday in a hospital in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, his family said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/19\/star-indian-athlete-milkha-singh-dies-after-catching-covid-aged-91\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi leads tributes to \u2018Flying Sikh\u2019, who won India\u2019s first Commonwealth gold in 1958Milkha Singh, one of India\u2019s first sport superstars, has died of Covid-related complications at the age of 91.Singh, who was popularly known as the Flying Sik&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"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":[2198,62,61,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","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\/33276","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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33277,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33276\/revisions\/33277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}