{"id":132691,"date":"2023-03-03T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T00:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132691"},"modified":"2023-03-03T17:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T00:10:50","slug":"inside-sri-lankas-deadly-underground-mines-filled-with-rare-jewels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/03\/inside-sri-lankas-deadly-underground-mines-filled-with-rare-jewels\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Sri Lanka&#8217;s deadly underground mines filled with rare jewels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"\" data-e2e-name=\"Selima Hussain\"><a class=\"byline-link byline-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/author\/selima-hussain\" data-e2e-name=\"byline-author-name\" data-uri=\"7944f823c02ff919cb55cd5f72a62e7b\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Selima Hussain<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"\" data-e2e-name=\"Robin Lindsay\"><a class=\"byline-link byline-author-name\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/author\/robin-lindsay\" data-e2e-name=\"byline-author-name\" data-uri=\"df133add9850c95ad1d71072caad28e3\">Robin Lindsay<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Courtesy Insider<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Miners in Sri Lanka risk their lives hunting for valuable gems in deep underground pits.<\/li><li>Workers inhale toxic gasses like methane, and the tunnels can collapse at any moment.<\/li><li>Sri Lanka is renowned for its jewels, and the city of Ratnapura translates to &#8220;city of gems.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/inside-sri-lankas-deadly-underground-mines-filled-with-rare-jewels-2023-3\">Inside Sri Lanka&#8217;s Deadly Underground Mines Filled With Rare Jewels (insider.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selima Hussain\u00a0and\u00a0Robin Lindsay\u00a0 Courtesy Insider Miners in Sri Lanka risk their lives hunting for valuable gems in deep underground pits. Workers inhale toxic gasses like methane, and the tunnels can collapse at any moment. Sri Lanka is renowned for its jewels, and the city of Ratnapura translates to &#8220;city of gems.&#8221;&nbsp; Inside Sri Lanka&#8217;s Deadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}