{"id":14411,"date":"2020-02-14T23:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-valentines-day-on-the-quarantined-ship-diamond-princess"},"modified":"2020-02-14T23:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:24:12","slug":"love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-valentines-day-on-the-quarantined-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14411","title":{"rendered":"Love in the time of coronavirus: Valentine\u2019s Day on the quarantined ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diamond Princess cruise liner off coast of Japan celebrates with love-themed menu to keep up morale <\/p>\n<p>The crew of the Diamond Princess had gone the extra mile on Friday \u2013 as they have done so often during their ship\u2019s quarantine off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> \u2013 with Californian wine and a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/quarantinedond1\/status\/1227837863057772545\">dinner menu<\/a> that included \u201cCupid\u2019s avocado and shrimp\u201d, coq au vin and a \u201csurprise dessert of the day\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But for the thousands of passengers forced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a> to remain inside their cabins for the best part of two weeks, Valentine\u2019s Day rituals must have seemed like they belonged in another world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-valentines-day-on-the-quarantined-ship-diamond-princess\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamond Princess cruise liner off coast of Japan celebrates with love-themed menu to keep up morale The crew of the Diamond Princess had gone the extra mile on Friday \u2013 as they have done so often during their ship\u2019s quarantine off Japan \u2013 with Californ&#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":[41,1069,88,1115,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-valentines-day","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\/14411","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=14411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14412,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411\/revisions\/14412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}