{"id":48032,"date":"2022-08-31T19:18:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/31\/pakistan-floods-cost-homes-livestock-crops"},"modified":"2022-08-31T22:37:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:37:42","slug":"its-just-a-pile-of-mud-and-bricks-the-devastating-cost-of-pakistans-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48032","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just a pile of mud\u2019: Pakistani floods force family to rebuild home again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As well as losing livestock and crops, villagers must rebuild homes for a second time after floods destroyed them in 2010<\/p>\n<p>Ghulam Kubra and her family escaped from their home 30 minutes before the roof collapsed. Fifteen days ago, the mother of four watched in despair as her one-room mud house crumbled. \u201cIt rained for two consecutive days non-stop,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could see the cracks in one of the walls, followed by a big gaping hole as rain lashed on it mercilessly,\u201d says Kubra, 32, from Jalal Thebo village, in Tando Allah Yar district, Sindh province.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/31\/pakistan-floods-cost-homes-livestock-crops\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as losing livestock and crops, villagers must rebuild homes for a second time after floods destroyed them in 2010Ghulam Kubra and her family escaped from their home 30 minutes before the roof collapsed. Fifteen days ago, the mother of four watc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3292,"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":[65,455,313,59,393,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-humanitarian-response","category-pakistan","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\/48032","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\/3292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48047,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48032\/revisions\/48047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}