{"id":25729,"date":"2020-12-16T08:44:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T23:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/cyclone-yasa-fiji-prepares-for-category-5-storm-as-tonga-braces-for-zazu"},"modified":"2020-12-16T08:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T23:44:32","slug":"cyclone-yasa-fiji-prepares-for-category-5-storm-as-tonga-braces-for-zazu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25729","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Yasa: Fiji prepares for category 5 storm as Tonga braces for Zazu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuations ordered in Fiji as Yasa strengthens into a category five system with winds of up to 270km\/h<\/p>\n<p>Twin cyclones are bearing down on Pacific islands, with Fiji\u2019s main island likely to be directly hit by a category five storm for the second time this year.<\/p>\n<p>Tonga and Fiji were bracing for potentially catastrophic damage as tropical cyclones Zazu and Yasa intensified off their coastlines on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/cyclone-yasa-fiji-prepares-for-category-5-storm-as-tonga-braces-for-zazu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuations ordered in Fiji as Yasa strengthens into a category five system with winds of up to 270km\/hTwin cyclones are bearing down on Pacific islands, with Fiji\u2019s main island likely to be directly hit by a category five storm for the second time thi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"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":[41,326,1341,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-cyclone-harold","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/25729","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\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25729\/revisions\/25730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}