{"id":61612,"date":"2024-02-02T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/02\/india-spy-pidgeon-suspect-china"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T04:48:10","slug":"flight-risk-suspected-spy-pigeon-released-after-eight-months-in-detention-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61612","title":{"rendered":"Flight risk: suspected spy pigeon released after eight months in detention in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pigeon was found last May with a message that was said to look like it contained Chinese characters<\/p>\n<p>Indian police have cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon and released it into the wild after eight months in detention, according to reports in the Press Trust of India.<\/p>\n<p>The pigeon\u2019s ordeal began in May when it was captured near a port in Mumbai with two rings tied to its legs, carrying a message that was said to look like it was in Chinese, local media said. Police suspected it was involved in espionage and took it in, later sending it to Mumbai\u2019s Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit hospital for animals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/02\/india-spy-pidgeon-suspect-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pigeon was found last May with a message that was said to look like it contained Chinese charactersIndian police have cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon and released it into the wild after eight months in detention, according to reports in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1660,"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":[667,62,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-espionage","category-india","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61612","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\/1660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61613,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61612\/revisions\/61613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}