{"id":16554,"date":"2022-01-18T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=16554"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:45:01","slug":"legendary-cartoonish-narayan-debnath-dies-at-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/legendary-cartoonish-narayan-debnath-dies-at-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary cartoonish Narayan Debnath dies at 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary cartoonist Narayan Debnath, the creator of Bengali comic characters <em>Bantul The Great<\/em>, <em>Handa Bhonda<\/em> and <em>Nonte Phonte<\/em>, died in Kolkata on Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness. He was 97.<\/p>\n<p>He was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata for the past two weeks. Debnath, a Padma Shri awardee, died at 10.15 am, an official said. He was admitted to the private hospital on December 24 and was on ventilator support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary cartoonist Narayan Debnath, the creator of Bengali comic characters Bantul The Great, Handa Bhonda and Nonte Phonte, died in Kolkata on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":16556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5546,583],"class_list":["post-16554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","tag-narayan-debnath","tag-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16557,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions\/16557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}