{"id":78277,"date":"2021-08-03T21:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=78277"},"modified":"2021-08-03T21:07:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:07:31","slug":"what-is-the-meaning-of-siachen-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/what-is-the-meaning-of-siachen-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the meaning of Siachen Glacier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A. High glacier<br \/>\n<strong>B. Abundance of roses<\/strong><br \/>\nC. Pure glacier<br \/>\nD. Blue glacier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sia&#8221; in the Balti language refers to the rose family plant widely dispersed in the region. &#8220;Chun&#8221; refers to any object found in abundance. Thus the name Siachen refers\u00a0<strong>to a land with an abundance of roses<\/strong>. The naming of the glacier itself, or at least its currency, is attributed to Tom Longstaff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. High glacier B. Abundance of roses C. Pure glacier D. Blue glacier Explanation: &#8220;Sia&#8221; in the Balti language refers to the rose family plant widely dispersed in the region. &#8220;Chun&#8221; refers to any object found in abundance. Thus the name Siachen refers\u00a0to a land with an abundance of roses. The naming of the glacier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,280],"tags":[26787,26786],"class_list":{"0":"post-78277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-knowledge-mcqs","8":"category-geography-mcqs","9":"tag-glaciers","10":"tag-meanings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}