{"id":2633,"date":"2019-07-10T12:35:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/10\/japans-famous-nara-deer-dying-from-eating-plastic-bags"},"modified":"2019-07-10T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:35:23","slug":"japans-famous-nara-deer-dying-from-eating-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=2633","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s famous Nara deer dying from eating plastic bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists warned not to feed the animals after plastic waste found in stomachs of several dead deer<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s ancient capital Nara are warning visitors not to feed the city\u2019s wild deer \u2013 a major tourist attraction \u2013 after several of the animals died after swallowing plastic bags.<\/p>\n<p>Large amounts of plastic waste were found in the stomachs of nine of 14 deer to have died since March, according to a local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/wildlife\">wildlife<\/a> conservation group.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/10\/japans-famous-nara-deer-dying-from-eating-plastic-bags\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists warned not to feed the animals after plastic waste found in stomachs of several dead deerAuthorities in Japan\u2019s ancient capital Nara are warning visitors not to feed the city\u2019s wild deer \u2013 a major tourist attraction \u2013 after several of the anim&#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":[265,41,65,88,266,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-japan","category-plastics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","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=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}