{"id":83648,"date":"2015-07-11T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T04:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=83648"},"modified":"2015-07-11T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T04:25:16","slug":"nst-an-incredible-170-year-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=83648","title":{"rendered":"NST \u201d An incredible 170-year journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IN a matter of days \u201d on July 15, to be exact \u201d two days before Muslims in Malaysia celebrate the first day of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, this newspaper will be 170. This is the nations oldest surviving newspaper. When it started in Singapore, it was named The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce. It started as a weekly, and hardly 100 copies were printed each time. The words \u0153and Singapore Journal of Commerce\u009d, however, disappeared in 1861, 16 years after its first publication.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1TrgvzL\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN a matter of days \u201d on July 15, to be exact \u201d two days before Muslims in Malaysia celebrate the first day of Hari&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83649,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83648\/revisions\/83649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}