{"id":12987,"date":"2020-01-17T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/17\/us-ambassadors-moustache-gets-up-south-koreas-nose"},"modified":"2020-01-17T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:12:23","slug":"us-ambassadors-moustache-gets-up-south-koreas-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12987","title":{"rendered":"US ambassador&#8217;s moustache gets up South Korea&#8217;s nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Harris has been criticised for his facial hair, which reminds many South Koreans of the days of Japanese colonial rule<\/p>\n<p>Tensions may be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/31\/north-korean-leader-to-end-missile-test-ban-claims-state-media\">running high<\/a> on the Korean peninsula, but Harry Harris\u2019s facial hair is vying with denuclearisation as the defining theme of his tenure as US ambassador to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, a former navy admiral who was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> to a Japanese mother and an American navy officer, has been accused of insulting his hosts by growing a moustache that reminds many South Koreans of the days of Japanese colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/17\/us-ambassadors-moustache-gets-up-south-koreas-nose\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Harris has been criticised for his facial hair, which reminds many South Koreans of the days of Japanese colonial ruleTensions may be running high on the Korean peninsula, but Harry Harris\u2019s facial hair is vying with denuclearisation as the defin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,222,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-us-news","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\/12987","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12988,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions\/12988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}