{"id":33988,"date":"2021-07-12T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T07:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/12\/police-say-selfie-takers-among-dead-as-lightning-kills-many-india"},"modified":"2021-07-12T23:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T14:52:05","slug":"selfie-takers-among-dead-say-indian-police-as-lightning-kills-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33988","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes kill 76 people in India as monsoon season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victims include people taking selfies at a hilltop fort, and others who were grazing camel and sheep<\/p>\n<p>Lightning has killed at least 76 people in India during the early stages of the annual monsoon season, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly lightning strikes are common in the vast Asian nation during the June-September deluge, which bring respite from the summer heat across the northern Indian plains.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/12\/police-say-selfie-takers-among-dead-as-lightning-kills-many-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims include people taking selfies at a hilltop fort, and others who were grazing camel and sheepLightning has killed at least 76 people in India during the early stages of the annual monsoon season, officials have said.Deadly lightning strikes are &#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":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33988","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\/33988","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=33988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34002,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33988\/revisions\/34002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}