{"id":10893,"date":"2021-06-05T05:27:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T05:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=10893"},"modified":"2021-06-05T05:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T05:29:36","slug":"tracing-the-overlapping-lives-of-my-great-grandfather-and-one-of-the-heroes-of-the-bombay-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=10893","title":{"rendered":"**  Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and one of the heroes of the Bombay Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Miguel Caetano Dias and Dr Acacio Gabriel Viegas had a lot in common, not least their zealous effort to save lives during the Bubonic plague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe some of you have heard of Dr Acacio Gabriel Viegas (April 1, 1856-February 21, 1933). I hadn\u2019t until about a decade ago. Until then, I would pass by his statue near Mumbai\u2019s Metro cinema without realising that it was his discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Bombay that saved thousands of souls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Miguel Caetano Dias and Dr Acacio Gabriel Viegas had a lot in common, not least their zealous effort to save lives during the Bubonic plague. Maybe some of you have heard of Dr Acacio Gabriel Viegas (April 1, 1856-February 21, 1933). I hadn\u2019t until about a decade ago. Until then, I would pass by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=10893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and one of the heroes of the Bombay Plague<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-records-india-national","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10897,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions\/10897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}