{"id":24083,"date":"2020-10-23T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/23\/calls-for-a-covid-kava-bubble-as-supply-from-pacific-to-australia-dries-up"},"modified":"2020-10-23T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:00:33","slug":"calls-for-a-covid-kava-bubble-as-supply-from-pacific-to-australia-dries-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24083","title":{"rendered":"Calls for a Covid &#8216;kava bubble&#8217; as supply from Pacific to Australia dries up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With little of the homemade Pacific brew available in Australia, prices have skyrocketed, and there\u2019s been a spike in seizures at the border<\/p>\n<p>The questions are asked quietly, but urgently: \u201cKava, do you have any? Do you know where to get any? Have you heard what they are paying for it in Sydney?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Pasifika meet in Australia, it is often kava that dominates: now, it is the absence of it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/23\/calls-for-a-covid-kava-bubble-as-supply-from-pacific-to-australia-dries-up\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With little of the homemade Pacific brew available in Australia, prices have skyrocketed, and there\u2019s been a spike in seizures at the borderThe questions are asked quietly, but urgently: \u201cKava, do you have any? Do you know where to get any? Have you he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"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":[41,436,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","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\/24083","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\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions\/24084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}