{"id":11572,"date":"2021-01-22T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118809\/china-gold-mine-blast-rescue-21-people-trapped-will-take-least"},"modified":"2021-01-22T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:05:08","slug":"china-gold-mine-blast-rescue-of-21-people-trapped-will-take-at-least-two-more-weeks-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/china-gold-mine-blast-rescue-of-21-people-trapped-will-take-at-least-two-more-weeks-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"China gold mine blast: rescue of 21 people trapped will take at least two more weeks, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"Rescuers believe it could take at least another two weeks to free miners trapped underground in eastern China, dashing hopes of an imminent retrieval for a group that has already spent 12 days entombed by an explosion.The increasingly desperate attempt to save 21 workers has been further complicated by a massive blockage that has delayed drilling efforts, according to state media.\u201cThe obstacles are just too huge, which means we need a least another 15 days or even more to reach the miners,\u201d\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118809\/china-gold-mine-blast-rescue-21-people-trapped-will-take-least\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers believe it could take at least another two weeks to free miners trapped underground in eastern China, dashing hopes of an imminent retrieval for a group that has already spent 12 days entombed by an explosion.The increasingly desperate attempt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11573,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions\/11573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}