{"id":43158,"date":"2022-04-01T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/india-living-root-bridges-submitted-to-unesco"},"modified":"2022-04-01T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:26:13","slug":"the-knowledge-of-our-elders-indias-living-root-bridges-submitted-to-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43158","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The knowledge of our elders\u2019: India\u2019s living root bridges submitted to Unesco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghalaya state hopes for world heritage status for unique bridges, which can take decades to create<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s famous living bridges \u2013 the roots of trees coaxed and stretched into the form of a suspension bridge over a river \u2013 have been submitted to Unesco\u2019s tentative list for the coveted world heritage site status.<\/p>\n<p>The mountainous state of Meghalaya in the north-east has more than 100 such bridges in 70 villages, unique structures created by a combination of nature and human ingenuity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/india-living-root-bridges-submitted-to-unesco\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghalaya state hopes for world heritage status for unique bridges, which can take decades to createIndia\u2019s famous living bridges \u2013 the roots of trees coaxed and stretched into the form of a suspension bridge over a river \u2013 have been submitted to Unesc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"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":[65,62,61,485,995,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trees-and-forests","category-unesco","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\/43158","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43159,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions\/43159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}