{"id":40558,"date":"2022-01-12T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/12\/landmine-hunting-hero-rat-dies-in-cambodia-after-stellar-career"},"modified":"2022-01-12T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:20:05","slug":"landmine-hunting-hero-rat-dies-in-cambodia-after-stellar-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40558","title":{"rendered":"Landmine-hunting hero rat dies in Cambodia after stellar career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magawa, a giant African pouched rat, was awarded a gold medal for heroism for clearing ordnance from 42 football pitches\u2019 worth of land<\/p>\n<p>A landmine-hunting rat that was awarded a gold medal for heroism for clearing ordnance from the Cambodian countryside has died.<\/p>\n<p>Magawa, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2017\/dec\/26\/giant-rats-tanzania-tb-tuberculosis-african-pouched\">giant African pouched rat<\/a> originally from Tanzania, helped clear mines from about 225,000 square metres of land \u2013 the equivalent of 42 football pitches \u2013 over the course of his career.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/12\/landmine-hunting-hero-rat-dies-in-cambodia-after-stellar-career\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magawa, a giant African pouched rat, was awarded a gold medal for heroism for clearing ordnance from 42 football pitches\u2019 worth of landA landmine-hunting rat that was awarded a gold medal for heroism for clearing ordnance from the Cambodian countryside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[401,41,361,1457,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-tanzania","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\/40558","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40559,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40558\/revisions\/40559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}