{"id":6904,"date":"2019-08-13T01:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/british-explorer-is-first-person-to-complete-4000-mile-yangtze-trek"},"modified":"2019-08-13T01:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:56:32","slug":"british-explorer-is-first-person-to-complete-4000-mile-yangtze-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6904","title":{"rendered":"British explorer is first person to complete 4,000-mile Yangtze trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ash Dykes, 28, had to overcome a landslide, blizzards and being followed by a pack of wolves <\/p>\n<p>A 28-year-old British explorer has become the first person to complete a 4,000-mile (6,437km) trek along the Yangtze River in China.<\/p>\n<p>Ash Dykes, from Old Colwyn in north Wales, finished the year-long expedition on Monday, overcoming blizzards, a landslide and temperatures as low as -20C (-4F).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/british-explorer-is-first-person-to-complete-4000-mile-yangtze-trek\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ash Dykes, 28, had to overcome a landslide, blizzards and being followed by a pack of wolves A 28-year-old British explorer has become the first person to complete a 4,000-mile (6,437km) trek along the Yangtze River in China.Ash Dykes, from Old Colwyn &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"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":[41,50,65,266,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-plastics","category-science","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\/6904","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\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}