{"id":31765,"date":"2021-05-05T14:10:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/may\/05\/japanese-town-spends-covid-funds-on-13-metre-squid-statue-video"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:10:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:10:54","slug":"japanese-town-spends-covid-funds-on-13-metre-squid-statue-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31765","title":{"rendered":"Japanese town spends Covid funds on 13-metre squid statue \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese coastal town of Noto is facing criticism after a giant squid statue was installed using emergency funding<br \/>\nintended for coronavirus measures. Crafting the pink-and-white<br \/>\ncreature with flared tentacles<br \/>\ncame at a cost of \u00a525m (\u00a3164,000), with the 13-metre-long statue installed as part of a tourism drive<br \/>\nto help the area&#8217;s virus hit economy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/japanese-town-spends-covid-funds-on-huge-squid-statue\">Japanese town spends Covid funds on huge squid statue<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/may\/05\/japanese-town-spends-covid-funds-on-13-metre-squid-statue-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese coastal town of Noto is facing criticism after a giant squid statue was installed using emergency funding<br \/>\nintended for coronavirus measures. Crafting the pink-and-white<br \/>\ncreature with flared tentacles<br \/>\ncame at a cost of \u00a525m (\u00a3164,000), with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,1066,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31766,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765\/revisions\/31766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}