{"id":394400,"date":"2021-01-11T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394400"},"modified":"2021-01-11T10:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T05:03:53","slug":"pakistan-hit-by-nationwide-power-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-hit-by-nationwide-power-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan hit by nationwide power blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power was gradually being restored to major cities across Pakistan Sunday after it was hit by a massive electricity blackout, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is a complex &#8212; and delicate &#8212; web, and a problem in one section of the grid can lead to cascading breakdowns countrywide.<\/p>\n<p>The latest blackout was caused by a fault in southern Pakistan at 11:41 pm local time on Saturday (1841 GMT), power minister Omar Ayub Khan tweeted, citing preliminary reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power was gradually being restored to major cities across Pakistan Sunday after it was hit by a massive electricity blackout, officials said. The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is a complex &#8212; and delicate &#8212; web, and a problem in one section of the grid can lead to cascading breakdowns countrywide. The latest blackout was caused by a fault in southern Pakistan at 11:41 pm local time on Saturday (1841 GMT), power minister Omar Ayub Khan tweeted, citing preliminary reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}