{"id":909,"date":"2015-04-30T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T09:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2015-04-30T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T09:41:51","slug":"i-feel-a-part-of-me-being-lost-readers-stories-of-the-nepal-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"&#8218;I feel a part of me being lost&#8216;: readers&#8216; stories of the Nepal earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-910\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/apr\/29\/i-feel-a-part-of-me-being-lost-readers-stories-of-the-nepal-earthquake\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-910 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whitness.jpg\" alt=\"Wout de Jong\/GuardianWitness\" width=\"1000\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whitness.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whitness-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whitness-199x60.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wout de Jong\/GuardianWitness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Wout de Jong<\/strong>\u00a0was travelling with his partner when the earthquake struck. They were near the town of Bandipur, about 80km outside Kathmandu. &#8222;We are a Dutch couple traveling in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nepal\">Nepal<\/a>.\u2028We we were just outside a big cave just outside of Bandipur when everything started rumbling. The shaking became unreal and went on for such a long time. When we got back to the village over 20 houses\u2028were down and people were panicing with every aftershock.\u00a0Screaming and running out of their houses. Our guesthouse wall was out and our beds full of bricks and rubble. Right now people here sleep outside\u2028in tents close to bonfires. Mostly the poor people have been\u00a0struck by the earthquake with their badly build houses reduced to rubble. Some tourists took it up themselves to help where they can but it&#8217;s still dangerous\u2028and some buildings still go down due to aftershocks.\u00a0So far we don&#8217;t know what the conditions of the roads are and are suggested to stay where we are until the minor shocks calm down.&#8220;\u2028(\u00a0Sent via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/\">guardian\u00a0witness<\/a>\u00a0By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/user\/Wout%20De%20Jong\">Wout De Jong<\/a>,\u00a027 April 2015, 10:56)<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-911\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/apr\/29\/i-feel-a-part-of-me-being-lost-readers-stories-of-the-nepal-earthquake\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-911 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/580d1e82-b8fb-4eb2-aea2-d506c14cd606-620x413.jpeg\" alt=\"Wout de Jong\/GuardianWitness\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/580d1e82-b8fb-4eb2-aea2-d506c14cd606-620x413.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/580d1e82-b8fb-4eb2-aea2-d506c14cd606-620x413-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/580d1e82-b8fb-4eb2-aea2-d506c14cd606-620x413-199x133.jpeg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> Wout de Jong\/GuardianWitness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/apr\/29\/i-feel-a-part-of-me-being-lost-readers-stories-of-the-nepal-earthquake\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: small;\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/apr\/29\/i-feel-a-part-of-me-being-lost-readers-stories-of-the-nepal-earthquake<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">What is Guardian Whitness?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">GuardianWitness<\/a><\/span> is the home of user-generated content on the Guardian. You can contribute your video, pictures and stories, and browse all the news, opinions and creations submitted by others. Posts will be reviewed prior to being published on GuardianWitness, with the best pieces featured on the Guardian site.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wout de Jong\u00a0was travelling with his partner when the earthquake struck. They were near the town of Bandipur, about 80km outside Kathmandu. &#8222;We are a Dutch couple traveling in\u00a0Nepal.\u2028We we were just outside a big cave just outside of Bandipur when everything started rumbling. The shaking became unreal and went on for such a long &#8230; <a title=\"&#8218;I feel a part of me being lost&#8216;: readers&#8216; stories of the Nepal earthquake\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=909\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber &#8218;I feel a part of me being lost&#8216;: readers&#8216; stories of the Nepal earthquake\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}