{"id":12095,"date":"2019-12-13T03:51:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/12\/white-island-volcano-operation-to-recover-bodies-begins"},"modified":"2019-12-13T03:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:51:25","slug":"white-island-volcano-operation-to-recover-bodies-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12095","title":{"rendered":"White Island volcano: operation to recover bodies begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helicopters set off from New Zealand mainland despite serious risk of volcano erupting again<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/dec\/12\/new-zealand-volcano-eruption-white-island-nz-police-victim-recovery-retrieval-operation-whakaari-live-news-latest-updates\">Volcano recovery operation \u2013 live updates <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A military operation to retrieve the bodies of eight people from White Island in New Zealand has begun, with defence force boats setting out at 4.30am, despite a serious risk of the volcano erupting again.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy commissioner John Tims said the operation had started after a prayer was held at sea, which was calm and flat with no sign of wind, and military operators landed on the Island just after 8am.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/12\/white-island-volcano-operation-to-recover-bodies-begins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helicopters set off from New Zealand mainland despite serious risk of volcano erupting againVolcano recovery operation \u2013 live updates A military operation to retrieve the bodies of eight people from White Island in New Zealand has begun, with defence f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":761,"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":[41,56,989,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-white-island-volcano","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\/12095","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\/761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12096,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions\/12096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}