{"id":6861,"date":"2008-06-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/06\/05\/us-government-gives-grant-for-conservation-of-angkor-temples\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T12:00:00","slug":"us-government-gives-grant-for-conservation-of-angkor-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/06\/05\/us-government-gives-grant-for-conservation-of-angkor-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Gives Grant For Conservation of Angkor Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/beta.ph.news.yahoo.com\/ap\/20080604\/tap-as-gen-cambodia-angkor-conservation-d3b07b8.html?printer=1\">beta.ph.news.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, June 5, 2008: The United States will donate nearly US$1 million for conservation of the centuries-old Bakheng temple, a famous cultural icon in Cambodia&#8217;s Angkor temple complex, the embassy said in a statement Wednesday. It said the US$978,705 will be given to the nonprofit World Monuments Fund, a New York-based archaeological group that has been doing work at the temple since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The Angkor temples are Cambodia&#8217;s main tourist attraction, earning hundreds of millions of dollars for the cash-strapped Southeast Asian country. About 3,000 tourists climb the hill in the space of just a few hours to see the sunset everyday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beta.ph.news.yahoo.com PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, June 5, 2008: The United States will donate nearly US$1 million for conservation of the centuries-old,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}