{"id":58339,"date":"2023-09-13T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/13\/crocodiles-escape-china-floods"},"modified":"2023-09-13T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:47:22","slug":"hunt-for-nearly-70-crocodiles-that-escaped-during-china-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58339","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for nearly 70 crocodiles that escaped during China floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme weather in the city of Maoming in Guangdong province caused lake to flood, allowing dozens of crocodiles to escape<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese city has launched an operation to find a large number of crocodiles that escaped when floods hit the region in recent days, authorities have said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/02\/typhoon-saola-makes-landfall-in-southern-china-as-nearly-900000-evacuated\">A typhoon brought sustained heavy rains to southern China last week<\/a>, triggering inundations in Hong Kong and other areas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/13\/crocodiles-escape-china-floods\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme weather in the city of Maoming in Guangdong province caused lake to flood, allowing dozens of crocodiles to escapeA Chinese city has launched an operation to find a large number of crocodiles that escaped when floods hit the region in recent da&#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":[41,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58339","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=58339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58340,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58339\/revisions\/58340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}