{"id":16646,"date":"2014-10-03T03:33:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T03:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/indian-woman-gives-birth-to-lizard-accused-of\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T03:33:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T03:33:46","slug":"indian-woman-gives-birth-to-lizard-accused-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/indian-woman-gives-birth-to-lizard-accused-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Woman Gives Birth to Lizard, Accused of Witchcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{An angry lynch mob is after a 31-year-old Indonesian woman who gave birth to a gecko after an 8-month pregnancy, India Today reported.} <\/p>\n<p>The group believes she practiced witchcraft after a midwife delivered a lizard in the remote Oenunto village.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, scientists aren&#8217;t convinced the lizard was actually born. Although Dr. Messe Ataupa, a medical officer from nearby Kupang, toldIndia Today that locals in the village confirmed Debi Nubatonis had shown all symptoms of being with child \u2014 including going into labor \u2014 &#8220;we believe it was just a phantom pregnancy or pseudocyesis where there was never a child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Discharge may have landed on a lizard during the faux birthing, Ataupa explained, leading the midwife to believe that it was the baby. <\/p>\n<p>This biologically &#8220;is clearly nonsense,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There has never been a proven case of a living organism from one species giving birth to a different species; it just doesn&#8217;t happen.&#8221; Yeah? Tell that to the angry mob.<\/p>\n<p>Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{An angry lynch mob is after a 31-year-old Indonesian woman who gave birth to a gecko after an 8-month pregnancy, India Today reported.} The group believes she practiced witchcraft after a midwife delivered a lizard in the remote Oenunto village. Not surprisingly, scientists aren&#8217;t convinced the lizard was actually born. Although Dr. Messe Ataupa, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000054291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-16646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000054291,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16646.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16646.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16646.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16646.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16646.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16646.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000054291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=16646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}