{"id":103281,"date":"2019-07-25T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/25\/indian-farmers-shocked-as-suspected-meteorite-crashes-into-rice-field\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:51:47","slug":"indian-farmers-shocked-as-suspected-meteorite-crashes-into-rice-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=103281","title":{"rendered":"Indian farmers shocked as suspected meteorite crashes into rice field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football-sized object landed in paddy in Bihar state after \u2018fireball\u2019 came down from skyA suspected meteorite has plunged from the sky, startling farmers and crashing into the middle of a rice field in eastern India, according to authorities.The object \u2013 the size of a football \u2013 landed with a thud in a paddy field in Bihar states\u2019s Madhubani district on Monday, sending up clouds of smoke. Kapil Ashok, the magistrate for Madhubani, told Times of India that labourers had seen \u201ca fireball-like object coming down from the sky\u201d. It was later dug from a 150cm-deep (5ft) deep hole by residents of Mahadeva village. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2019\/jul\/25\/indian-farmers-shocked-as-suspected-meteorite-crashes-into-rice-field\" target=\"_blank\">Indian farmers shocked as suspected meteorite crashes into rice field<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football-sized object landed in paddy in Bihar state after \u2018fireball\u2019 came down from skyA suspected meteorite has plunged from the sky, startling farmers and crashing into the middle of a rice field in eastern India, according to authorities.The object \u2013 the size of a football \u2013 landed with a thud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}