{"id":18439,"date":"2020-05-20T10:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T01:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/we-do-not-feel-safe-samoan-seafarers-plead-for-right-to-return-home"},"modified":"2020-05-20T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T01:01:29","slug":"we-do-not-feel-safe-samoan-seafarers-plead-for-right-to-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18439","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We do not feel safe&#8217;: Samoan seafarers plead for right to return home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of workers stranded on commercial and cruise ships since government closed borders to all including returning citizens<\/p>\n<p>Samoans trapped at sea due to coronavirus have pleaded with their government to allow them to return home. <\/p>\n<p>The 321 Samoan seafarers working on commercial and cruise ships around the world have been told by their government to be patient, since Samoa closed its borders in March to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/13\/samoa-turns-away-eight-of-its-own-citizens-over-coronavirus-fears\">all travellers including returning citizens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/we-do-not-feel-safe-samoan-seafarers-plead-for-right-to-return-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of workers stranded on commercial and cruise ships since government closed borders to all including returning citizensSamoans trapped at sea due to coronavirus have pleaded with their government to allow them to return home. The 321 Samoan sea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":865,"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":[41,1069,936,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-samoa","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\/18439","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\/865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18440,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions\/18440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}