{"id":620,"date":"2009-08-02T00:56:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T19:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/?p=620"},"modified":"2009-08-22T00:57:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T19:27:25","slug":"the-finest-goats-of-ladakh-pashmina-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/general\/the-finest-goats-of-ladakh-pashmina-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"The finest goats of Ladakh: Pashmina Goat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word Pashmina comes from Pashm the Persian word for Wool. Pashmina is the winter coat of this animal and is produced in these goats only when they are reared in that high altitude and low temperature region. The goat sheds between 85g to 225g of this under-coat every spring which is used to make fine hand woven shawls.<\/p>\n<p>Quite in demand for its properties of warmt and feel, the pashmina wool contributes significantly to the rural economy of the Ladakh and Kashmir regions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_619\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 564px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619\" title=\"pashmina goats in ladakh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DSCN3836.JPG\" alt=\"pashmina goats in ladakh\" width=\"554\" height=\"416\" \/><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word Pashmina comes from Pashm the Persian word for Wool. Pashmina is the winter coat of this animal and is produced in these goats only when they are reared in that high altitude and low temperature region. The goat sheds between 85g to 225g of this under-coat every spring which is used to make [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}