{"id":9040,"date":"2019-09-16T19:05:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/16\/half-of-tigers-rescued-from-thai-temple-have-died-officials-say"},"modified":"2019-09-16T19:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:05:14","slug":"half-of-tigers-rescued-from-thai-temple-have-died-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9040","title":{"rendered":"Half of tigers rescued from Thai temple have died, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inbreeding blamed as only 61 of 147 big cats survive after removal from tourist attraction<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the 147 tigers confiscated from a Thai temple have died, park officials have said, blaming genetic problems linked to inbreeding at the once money-spinning tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua temple in the western province of Kanchanaburi attracted hordes of tourists who could be photographed \u2013 for a fee \u2013 next to scores of tigers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/16\/half-of-tigers-rescued-from-thai-temple-have-died-officials-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inbreeding blamed as only 61 of 147 big cats survive after removal from tourist attractionMore than half of the 147 tigers confiscated from a Thai temple have died, park officials have said, blaming genetic problems linked to inbreeding at the once mon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[265,41,456,65,93,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-conservation","category-environment","category-thailand","category-wildlife","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\/9040","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}