{"id":30893,"date":"2021-04-14T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/his-spirit-lives-on-vanuatus-tanna-island-mourns-prince-philip-as-its-own"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:08:09","slug":"his-spirit-lives-on-vanuatus-tanna-island-mourns-prince-philip-as-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30893","title":{"rendered":"\u2018His spirit lives on\u2019: Vanuatu\u2019s Tanna island mourns Prince Philip as its own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Villagers believe Duke of Edinburgh was born on Tanna and left it to woo and wed the Queen <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/13\/queen-returns-to-royal-duties-four-days-after-death-of-prince-philip\">Queen returns to royal duties four days after death of Prince Philip<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/09\/prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh-dies\">news of Prince Philip\u2019s death<\/a> reverberated around the world, a young woman and her mother selling snacks in a marketplace on the Vanuatu island of Tanna heard it for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie, who declined to provide a family name, visibly flinched as the information registered. She quickly recovered the reserved demeanour so common on the island but the news clearly touched her deeply.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/his-spirit-lives-on-vanuatus-tanna-island-mourns-prince-philip-as-its-own\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Villagers believe Duke of Edinburgh was born on Tanna and left it to woo and wed the Queen Queen returns to royal duties four days after death of Prince PhilipDays after the news of Prince Philip\u2019s death reverberated around the world, a young woman and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2087,"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":[41,1611,874,1625,371,282,52,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-monarchy","category-pacific-islands","category-prince-philip","category-religion","category-south-pacific","category-uk-news","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\/30893","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\/2087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30894,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893\/revisions\/30894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}