{"id":89777,"date":"2026-05-27T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89777"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:45:07","slug":"five-of-seven-people-trapped-in-laos-cave-found-alive-rescuers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/five-of-seven-people-trapped-in-laos-cave-found-alive-rescuers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Five of seven people trapped in Laos cave found alive, rescuers say"},"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:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/05\/27\/08\/2026-05-27T051430Z_1572131396_RC2HHLASLLSF_RTRMADP_3_LAOS-CAVE.JPG\" alt=\"Members of a rescue team work to save seven people trapped in a cave, at a location given as Xaisomboun Province, Laos, in this handout image released 26 May 2026\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Five of the seven villagers who became trapped in a cave that flooded in Laos were found alive by rescuers Wednesday, in an incident echoing the dramatic 2018 rescue of teenage soccer players <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/27\/asia\/laos-flooded-cave-rescue-intl\">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>&nbsp; Five of the seven villagers who became trapped in a cave that flooded in Laos were found alive by rescuers Wednesday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Laos.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89777","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=89777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89779,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89777\/revisions\/89779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}