{"id":15988,"date":"2020-03-18T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/18\/coronavirus-fears-and-controversial-passport-sales-vanuatus-election-explained"},"modified":"2020-03-18T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T21:00:05","slug":"coronavirus-fears-and-controversial-passport-sales-vanuatus-election-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15988","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus fears and controversial passport sales: Vanuatu&#8217;s election explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A country with fractured and shifting political alliances, Vanuatu heads to the polls at a crucial moment in its history <\/p>\n<p>In the coffee shops and kava bars of Vanuatu\u2019s capital of Port Vila, there are two subjects that dominate conversation: Covid-19 and this week\u2019s general elections, which will be held on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/18\/coronavirus-fears-and-controversial-passport-sales-vanuatus-election-explained\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A country with fractured and shifting political alliances, Vanuatu heads to the polls at a crucial moment in its history In the coffee shops and kava bars of Vanuatu\u2019s capital of Port Vila, there are two subjects that dominate conversation: Covid-19 an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"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":[41,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","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\/15988","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\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15989,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions\/15989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}