{"id":29883,"date":"2021-03-18T17:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/taiwan-official-urges-people-to-stop-changing-their-name-to-salmon"},"modified":"2021-03-18T17:49:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:49:26","slug":"taiwan-official-urges-people-to-stop-changing-their-name-to-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29883","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan official urges people to stop changing their name to &#8216;salmon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people have changed names to include \u2018gui yu\u2019 to take advantage of sushi promotion<\/p>\n<p>A Taiwanese official has pleaded with people to stop changing their name to \u201csalmon\u201d after dozens made the unusual move to take advantage of a restaurant promotion.<\/p>\n<p>In a phenomenon that has been labelled \u201csalmon chaos\u201d by local media, about 150 mostly young people visited government offices in recent days to officially change their name.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/taiwan-official-urges-people-to-stop-changing-their-name-to-salmon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people have changed names to include \u2018gui yu\u2019 to take advantage of sushi promotionA Taiwanese official has pleaded with people to stop changing their name to \u201csalmon\u201d after dozens made the unusual move to take advantage of a restaurant promot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"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":[41,2002,382,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fish","category-restaurants","category-taiwan","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\/29883","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\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29884,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29883\/revisions\/29884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}