{"id":16972,"date":"2020-04-08T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/08\/cyclone-harold-batters-fiji-on-path-of-destruction-through-pacific"},"modified":"2020-04-08T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:47:34","slug":"cyclone-harold-batters-fiji-on-path-of-destruction-through-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16972","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Harold batters Fiji on path of destruction through Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tropical cyclone killed 27 people in Solomon Islands last week and has caused unknown destruction in Vanuatu<\/p>\n<p>Cyclone Harold has levelled buildings and caused dangerous flooding across Fiji\u2019s largest island of Viti Levu, after pummelling Vanuatu as a category-five storm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The tropical cyclone was downgraded to category four before reaching Fijian waters. Fijian authorities ordered people to stay indoors and closed all roads on the island of Viti Levu, which is home to the country\u2019s capital of Suva and the bulk of the Pacific nation\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/08\/cyclone-harold-batters-fiji-on-path-of-destruction-through-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tropical cyclone killed 27 people in Solomon Islands last week and has caused unknown destruction in VanuatuCyclone Harold has levelled buildings and caused dangerous flooding across Fiji\u2019s largest island of Viti Levu, after pummelling Vanuatu as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":848,"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":[41,1341,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cyclone-harold","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/16972","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\/848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972\/revisions\/16973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}