{"id":34779,"date":"2021-08-04T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T02:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/fijis-political-turmoil-everything-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2021-08-04T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T02:13:45","slug":"fijis-political-turmoil-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34779","title":{"rendered":"Fiji\u2019s political turmoil: everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unpopular new law that critics say will remove power from landowners has triggered political and social upheaval<\/p>\n<p>Fiji has experienced escalating political tensions over the past fortnight, with opposition politicians arrested, extra police deployed across the country and fierce political debate, amid concerns the tensions could lead to civil unrest and violence. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/fijis-political-turmoil-everything-you-need-to-know\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unpopular new law that critics say will remove power from landowners has triggered political and social upheavalFiji has experienced escalating political tensions over the past fortnight, with opposition politicians arrested, extra police deployed a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1249,"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":[41,436,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779","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\/1249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34780,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34779\/revisions\/34780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}