{"id":10603,"date":"2019-10-31T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T00:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/japan-shuri-castle-fire-blaze-engulfs-ancient-world-heritage-site"},"modified":"2019-10-31T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T00:26:58","slug":"japan-shuri-castle-fire-blaze-engulfs-revered-world-heritage-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10603","title":{"rendered":"Japan Shuri castle fire: blaze engulfs revered world heritage site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire spread quickly through 600-year-old site dating back to Ryukyu kingdom in Okinawa<\/p>\n<p>A fire has swept through a historic castle on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa , destroying much of a structure that had come to symbolise the ancient Ryukyu kingdom and the island\u2019s recovery from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/secondworldwar\">second world war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flames engulfed Shuri castle, a Unesco world heritage site located in the island\u2019s capital Naha, at around 2:40 am and quickly spread to other buildings in the complex, local police said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/japan-shuri-castle-fire-blaze-engulfs-ancient-world-heritage-site\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire spread quickly through 600-year-old site dating back to Ryukyu kingdom in OkinawaA fire has swept through a historic castle on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa , destroying much of a structure that had come to symbolise the ancient Ryukyu k&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10604,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions\/10604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}