{"id":73630,"date":"2025-08-25T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/25\/myanmar-historic-gokteik-bridge-destroyed"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:36:36","slug":"historic-myanmar-bridge-destroyed-in-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73630","title":{"rendered":"Historic Myanmar bridge destroyed in fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned Gokteik bridge was bombed on Sunday, with the ruling military junta and rebel forces blaming each other for its destruction<\/p>\n<p>A colonial-era bridge in Myanmar that was once the world\u2019s tallest railway trestle has been destroyed during fighting in the years-long conflict.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/31\/myanmar-military-coup-anniversary\">civil war<\/a> has consumed Myanmar since a 2021 coup deposed the civilian government, with the military battling myriad pro-democracy guerrilla groups and ethnic armed organisations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/25\/myanmar-historic-gokteik-bridge-destroyed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned Gokteik bridge was bombed on Sunday, with the ruling military junta and rebel forces blaming each other for its destructionA colonial-era bridge in Myanmar that was once the world\u2019s tallest railway trestle has been destroyed during fightin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73630","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73631,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73630\/revisions\/73631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}