{"id":11943,"date":"2019-12-09T19:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/how-tourists-became-first-aiders-on-seas-off-white-island-volcano-new-zealand"},"modified":"2019-12-09T19:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:12:19","slug":"how-tourists-became-first-aiders-on-seas-off-white-island-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11943","title":{"rendered":"How tourists became first-aiders on seas off White Island volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One minute they were taking photos, the next tending the burns of fellow tourists in New Zealand<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-volcano-tourists-injured-and-missing-after-eruption-on-white-island-live\">Follow the latest updates on the eruption &#8211; live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a beautiful, clear day in Whakat\u0101ne, a town on the east coast of New Zealand\u2019s North Island, the air fresh with the beginning of summer. Suddenly and silently, just after lunch, a massive plume of smoke spewed into the blue sky.<\/p>\n<p>Just off the volcanic White Island, or Whakaari, a boatload of tourists who had been standing at the crater just 20 minutes earlier watched in surprise, and then horror.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/how-tourists-became-first-aiders-on-seas-off-white-island-volcano-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One minute they were taking photos, the next tending the burns of fellow tourists in New ZealandFollow the latest updates on the eruption &#8211; liveIt was a beautiful, clear day in Whakat\u0101ne, a town on the east coast of New Zealand\u2019s North Island, the air &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,157,56,899,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand","category-volcanoes","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\/11943","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11965,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions\/11965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}