{"id":70643,"date":"2025-01-17T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70643"},"modified":"2025-01-17T20:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:55:06","slug":"south-african-miner-describes-horrors-as-people-starved-to-death-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/17\/south-african-miner-describes-horrors-as-people-starved-to-death-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"South African miner describes horrors as people starved to death underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1xndnC.img?w=768&amp;h=512&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The miner said his escape was extremely difficult (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined space. Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn\u2019t stand up.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/south-african-miner-describes-horrors-as-people-starved-to-death-underground\/ar-AA1xnaXq?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=06bedbfd949c4110cc7b4e6874d1ab77&amp;ei=17\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined space. Dozens of men sat and lay together in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/trapped-miners-SA.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70644,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70643\/revisions\/70644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}