{"id":11655,"date":"2019-11-30T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/30\/there-are-no-words-samoa-buries-its-children-as-measles-outbreak-worsens"},"modified":"2019-11-30T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:00:15","slug":"there-are-no-words-samoa-buries-its-children-as-measles-outbreak-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11655","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There are no words&#8217;: Samoa buries its children as measles outbreak worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In six weeks, a measles outbreak has infected 3,000 people out of a population of 200,000, killing 42, mostly children<\/p>\n<p>Fa\u2019aoso Tuivale sleeps on her children\u2019s grave during the day, when she misses them most.<\/p>\n<p>She and her husband, Tuivale Luamanuvae Puelua, are sitting on the newly-dried concrete that mark the graves of their three-year-old Itila and 13-month-old twins, Tamara and Sale, talking about the week that has passed since they buried them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/30\/there-are-no-words-samoa-buries-its-children-as-measles-outbreak-worsens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In six weeks, a measles outbreak has infected 3,000 people out of a population of 200,000, killing 42, mostly childrenFa\u2019aoso Tuivale sleeps on her children\u2019s grave during the day, when she misses them most.She and her husband, Tuivale Luamanuvae Puelu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"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":[41,914,874,936,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-infectious-diseases","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11656,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions\/11656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}