{"id":61992,"date":"2024-02-18T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/18\/soon-it-will-be-like-a-museum-the-last-rosewater-shop-in-kashmir"},"modified":"2024-02-18T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T08:00:38","slug":"soon-it-will-be-like-a-museum-the-last-rosewater-shop-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61992","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Soon it will be like a museum\u2019: the last rosewater shop in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Aziz Kozgar\u2019s family has been making rosewater for two centuries but the future is uncertain<\/p>\n<p>On a bitterly cold morning near the banks of Jhelum River, Abdul Aziz Kozgar sits surrounded by the scent of roses, carrying the burden of legacy.<\/p>\n<p>An ageing man with a trimmed white beard, Kozgar holds the poignant title of being the last maker of <em>Arq-e-Gulab<\/em>, or rosewater, in Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/18\/soon-it-will-be-like-a-museum-the-last-rosewater-shop-in-kashmir\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Aziz Kozgar\u2019s family has been making rosewater for two centuries but the future is uncertainOn a bitterly cold morning near the banks of Jhelum River, Abdul Aziz Kozgar sits surrounded by the scent of roses, carrying the burden of legacy.An agein&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4139,"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":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61992","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\/4139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61993,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61992\/revisions\/61993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}