{"id":87041,"date":"2019-11-23T17:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T12:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11862"},"modified":"2019-11-23T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T12:14:19","slug":"living-root-bridges-of-meghalaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/living-root-bridges-of-meghalaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Root Bridges of Meghalaya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Researchers have proposed to integrate living root bridges in modern architecture around the world, and potentially help make cities more environment-friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Living Root bridges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Living root bridges are <em>Ficus elastica<\/em> based suspension bridges within dense tropical rainforests in Khasi and Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya state.<\/li><li>&nbsp;Ficus elastica is conducive to the growth of bridges because of three main properties: they are elastic, their roots easily get entangled with each other and the plants grow in rough, rocky soils.<\/li><li>The bridges span over 15 feet to 250 feet and is primarily a means to cross streams and rivers. They are grown by Khasi and Jaintia tribes over 15-30 years and are locally known as \u201cjing kieng jri\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Researchers have proposed to integrate living root bridges in modern architecture around the world, and potentially help make cities more environment-friendly. Facts: About Living Root bridges Living root bridges are Ficus elastica based suspension bridges within dense tropical rainforests in Khasi and Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya state. &nbsp;Ficus elastica is conducive to the growth&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/living-root-bridges-of-meghalaya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living Root Bridges of Meghalaya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4773],"class_list":["post-87041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-living-root-bridges-of-meghalaya","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913288},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}