{"id":19881,"date":"2020-06-30T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T04:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/scat-feels-better-digestive-health-of-japan-deer-improves-as-tourist-snacks-dwindle"},"modified":"2020-06-30T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T04:21:11","slug":"scat-feels-better-digestive-health-of-japan-deer-improves-as-tourist-snacks-dwindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19881","title":{"rendered":"Scat feels better: digestive health of Japan deer improves as tourist snacks dwindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absence of tourists during coronavirus pandemic has led Nara\u2019s revered deer back to traditional diets and better health<\/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>While the absence of tourists during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a> may have deprived Nara\u2019s famous deer of their favourite snack, it has worked wonders for their digestive health.<\/p>\n<p>Before the outbreak, millions of tourists descended on the western Japanese city \u2013 once the country\u2019s capital \u2013 to view its shrines and temples, and feed the estimated 1,300 free-roaming deer in the its main park<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/scat-feels-better-digestive-health-of-japan-deer-improves-as-tourist-snacks-dwindle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absence of tourists during coronavirus pandemic has led Nara\u2019s revered deer back to traditional diets and better healthCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhile the absence of tourists during the coronavirus pandemic may have de&#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":[41,1069,65,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-environment","category-japan","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\/19881","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=19881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19882,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881\/revisions\/19882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}