{"id":19023,"date":"2020-06-06T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/06\/the-vanuatu-island-in-the-eye-of-the-storm"},"modified":"2020-06-06T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:00:04","slug":"the-vanuatu-island-in-the-eye-of-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19023","title":{"rendered":"The Vanuatu island in the eye of the storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pentecost Island, devastated by Cyclone Harold in April, has been left a silent shadow of its former self. But its people endure<\/p>\n<p>Touching down on the island of Pentecost in Vanuatu, it takes hours to notice the silence. After a while it hits you: there\u2019s no birdsong, no insects buzzing and chittering. There is no wind in the trees.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t register the silence at first because your eyes are overwhelmed with the magnitude of the destruction. The eye of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/10\/its-all-gone-cyclone-harold-cuts-a-deadly-path-through-vanuatu\">category 5 Cyclone Harold<\/a> passed directly over the central and southern half of this remote and mountainous island on April 5.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/06\/the-vanuatu-island-in-the-eye-of-the-storm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentecost Island, devastated by Cyclone Harold in April, has been left a silent shadow of its former self. But its people endureTouching down on the island of Pentecost in Vanuatu, it takes hours to notice the silence. After a while it hits you: there\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":673,"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":[41,1341,157,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cyclone-harold","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19023","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\/673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19024,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19023\/revisions\/19024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}