{"id":14381,"date":"2020-02-14T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/throwaway-citizens-australian-retiree-rejected-for-wuhan-evacuation-flights-feels-left-behind"},"modified":"2020-02-14T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:30:07","slug":"throwaway-citizens-australian-retiree-rejected-for-wuhan-evacuation-flights-feels-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14381","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Throwaway citizens&#8217;: Australian retiree rejected for Wuhan evacuation flights feels left behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Ridder, a 78-year-old from Cooma, says he missed out despite the government prioritising the elderly, young and vulnerable<\/p>\n<p>A 78-year-old Australian man trapped in Wuhan says he feels like a \u201cthrowaway citizen\u201d after being rejected for the government\u2019s evacuation flights and he \u201cnow knows what it feels like to be in jail\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Garry Ridder, a retired engineer from Cooma, arrived in Wuhan, in Hubei province, in late January, just as news of an unknown virus emanating from the city began to emerge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/throwaway-citizens-australian-retiree-rejected-for-wuhan-evacuation-flights-feels-left-behind\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Ridder, a 78-year-old from Cooma, says he missed out despite the government prioritising the elderly, young and vulnerableA 78-year-old Australian man trapped in Wuhan says he feels like a \u201cthrowaway citizen\u201d after being rejected for the governme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":914,"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":[41,43,645,324,50,1069,325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-marise-payne"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381","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\/914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14382,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions\/14382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}