{"id":89967,"date":"2019-04-24T03:02:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/24\/indian-officials-travel-deep-into-jungle-so-lone-holy-man-can-vote\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T03:02:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:02:03","slug":"indian-officials-travel-deep-into-jungle-so-lone-holy-man-can-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=89967","title":{"rendered":"Indian officials travel deep into jungle so lone holy man can vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polling station set up deep inside Gir wildlife sanctuary for Shiva priest who looks after isolated templeIndian officials travelled nearly 70km (45 miles) through jungle this week to ensure a 69-year-old holy man got to cast his vote in the Indian general election.Four election officials, accompanied by a policeman, set up a special polling station deep in the Gir wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat state so a sole voter \u2013 Bharatdas Darshandas \u2013 could take part in the world\u2019s biggest democratic exercise. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/24\/indian-officials-travel-deep-into-jungle-so-lone-holy-man-can-vote\" target=\"_blank\">Indian officials travel deep into jungle so lone holy man can vote<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling station set up deep inside Gir wildlife sanctuary for Shiva priest who looks after isolated templeIndian officials travelled nearly 70km (45 miles) through jungle this week to ensure a 69-year-old holy man got to cast his vote in the Indian general election.Four election officials, accompanied by a policeman, set [&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-89967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89967","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=89967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}