{"id":67588,"date":"2024-10-31T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/31\/india-village-kamala-harris-support-election"},"modified":"2024-10-31T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T10:00:15","slug":"village-in-india-where-harris-is-daughter-of-the-land-on-edge-as-us-election-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67588","title":{"rendered":"Village in India where Harris is \u2018daughter of the land\u2019 on edge as US election looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billboards with Harris\u2019s face wishing her good luck erected across sleepy village and daily prayers held at local temple<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> may never have visited Thulasendrapuram, a sleepy village in south India, but its residents claim to be some of her most devoted fans.<\/p>\n<p>It was here, in among the verdant rice paddies and groundnut farms of rural Tamil Nadu, that Harris\u2019s grandfather PV Gopalan was born. Though more than a century has passed since then, residents have proudly claimed Harris as a \u201cdaughter of the land\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/31\/india-village-kamala-harris-support-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billboards with Harris\u2019s face wishing her good luck erected across sleepy village and daily prayers held at local templeKamala Harris may never have visited Thulasendrapuram, a sleepy village in south India, but its residents claim to be some of her mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4471,"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":[62,1639,61,3042,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kamala-harris","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-elections-2024","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/67588","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\/4471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67588\/revisions\/67589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}