{"id":17490,"date":"2020-04-24T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/24\/very-painful-japan-covid-19-officials-cut-off-thousands-of-roses-to-deter-gatherings"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:41:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:41:24","slug":"very-painful-japan-covid-19-officials-cut-off-thousands-of-roses-to-deter-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17490","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Very painful&#8217;: Japan Covid-19 officials cut off thousands of roses to deter gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Park in Saitama takes drastic action to remove main attraction as Tokyo urges residents to shop less<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Local authorities in Japan are sacrificing tens of thousands of flowers to deter visitors, as the country attempts to contain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tiptoeing through the tulips or breathing in the scent of roses are popular spring rites in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, but there is concern that flower festivals could become the source of new infection clusters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/24\/very-painful-japan-covid-19-officials-cut-off-thousands-of-roses-to-deter-gatherings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park in Saitama takes drastic action to remove main attraction as Tokyo urges residents to shop lessCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLocal authorities in Japan are sacrificing tens of thousands of flowers to deter visitors, a&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490","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=17490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions\/17491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}