{"id":12836,"date":"2020-01-12T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/12\/philippines-volcano-taal-spews-ash"},"modified":"2020-01-12T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T14:16:00","slug":"philippines-warns-of-explosive-eruption-as-taal-volcano-spews-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12836","title":{"rendered":"Philippines warns of &#8216;explosive eruption&#8217; as Taal volcano spews ash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 8,000 residents ordered to evacuate volcano island and other high-risk towns<\/p>\n<p>A volcano near the Philippines capital has spewed ash up to nine miles (15km) into the sky, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people, the cancellation of flights and warnings of a possible explosive eruption and volcanic tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>Taal volcano, one of the country\u2019s most active, is in the middle of a lake about 45 miles south of Manila. As tremors shook the area on Sunday, volcanic lightning flickered in the column of steam and ash.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/12\/philippines-volcano-taal-spews-ash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 8,000 residents ordered to evacuate volcano island and other high-risk townsA volcano near the Philippines capital has spewed ash up to nine miles (15km) into the sky, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people, the cancellation of flights a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,157,55,899,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-philippines","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\/12836","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12837,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions\/12837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}