{"id":20282,"date":"2020-07-08T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T03:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/brief-shining-of-the-light-japans-fireflies-dance-and-mate-in-isolation-amid-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T03:49:31","slug":"brief-shining-of-the-light-japans-fireflies-dance-and-mate-in-isolation-amid-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20282","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Brief shining of the light&#8217;: Japan&#8217;s fireflies dance &#8211; and mate &#8211; in isolation amid Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next year visitors to Tatsuno \u2018will once again see fireflies dance wonderfully\u2019, says mayor<\/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>As the sun sets in the Japanese town of Tatsuno, thousands of fireflies begin glowing, producing a spectacle that usually draws crowds of delighted visitors.<\/p>\n<p>But this year, the dance of the incandescent insects is being performed without spectators, after coronavirus prevention measures forced organisers of a popular firefly festival to cancel the event.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/brief-shining-of-the-light-japans-fireflies-dance-and-mate-in-isolation-amid-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next year visitors to Tatsuno \u2018will once again see fireflies dance wonderfully\u2019, says mayorCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs the sun sets in the Japanese town of Tatsuno, thousands of fireflies begin glowing, producing a sp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,1069,65,777,88,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-environment","category-insects","category-japan","category-science","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\/20282","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20283,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20282\/revisions\/20283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}