{"id":633,"date":"2004-11-02T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T21:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=633"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:26","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:26","slug":"cue_the_bloodsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/02\/cue_the_bloodsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Cue the bloodsucking monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asia.news.yahoo.com\/041102\/ap\/d863k83o0.html\" target=\"_blank\">From Yahoo Asia<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;They hide in trees and swoop on unsuspecting children loitering about in the temple premises or walking by, clawing them and even sucking a bit of blood,&#8221; Bani Kumar Sharma, a priest at the Kamakhya temple in Assam state, told The Associated Press. The temple, one of the most famous in India, is located in Gauhati, Assam&#8217;s capital. \n<br>\n<br>\n&#8220;I was returning home from school when a monkey suddenly pounced on me, scratched my head and hand and pushed me to the ground,&#8221; said Jolly Sharma, a 6-year-old girl.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Hmmm.  These sound awfully similar to the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo Asia: &#8220;They hide in trees and swoop on unsuspecting children loitering about in the temple premises or walking by, clawing them and even sucking a bit of blood,&#8221; Bani Kumar Sharma, a priest at the Kamakhya temple in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/02\/cue_the_bloodsu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}