{"id":2433,"date":"2019-07-10T05:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/10\/alek-sigley-denies-he-was-a-spy-and-laments-he-may-never-see-north-korea-again"},"modified":"2019-07-10T05:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:34:55","slug":"alek-sigley-denies-he-was-a-spy-and-laments-he-may-never-see-north-korea-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=2433","title":{"rendered":"Alek Sigley denies he was a spy and laments he may never see North Korea again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian student who was detained by the regime breaks his silence<\/p>\n<p>Alek Sigley, the Australian student who was detained by North Korea for a little over a week before being released, has rejected the regime\u2019s accusation that he was a spy.<\/p>\n<p>Sigley, 29, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlekSigley\/status\/1148575712766332929\">returned to social media <\/a>late on Wednesday, where he released a brief statement after assuring everyone he was well, mentally and physically.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/10\/alek-sigley-denies-he-was-a-spy-and-laments-he-may-never-see-north-korea-again\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian student who was detained by the regime breaks his silenceAlek Sigley, the Australian student who was detained by North Korea for a little over a week before being released, has rejected the regime\u2019s accusation that he was a spy.Sigley, 29, r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"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":[41,43,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}