{"id":3546,"date":"2019-07-17T13:40:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T04:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/17\/cucumber-crisis-after-tokyo-hit-by-cloudiest-spell-since-records-began"},"modified":"2019-07-17T13:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T04:40:25","slug":"cucumber-crisis-after-tokyo-hit-by-cloudiest-spell-since-records-began-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"Cucumber crisis after Tokyo hit by cloudiest spell since records began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unseasonable weather has blighted agriculture across Japan, as well as sales of summer clothes <\/p>\n<p>Tokyo\u2019s cloudiest few weeks in nearly 60 years has cast a shadow over the capital\u2019s vegetable markets, forcing up the prices of some by 70%.<\/p>\n<p>Japan has been hit by unseasonably cloudy weather and cool temperatures, Tokyo enjoying fewer than three hours of sunshine a day for 20 days through to Tuesday, the lowest recorded since Japan\u2019s Meteorological Agency started collecting data in 1961.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/17\/cucumber-crisis-after-tokyo-hit-by-cloudiest-spell-since-records-began\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unseasonable weather has blighted agriculture across Japan, as well as sales of summer clothes Tokyo\u2019s cloudiest few weeks in nearly 60 years has cast a shadow over the capital\u2019s vegetable markets, forcing up the prices of some by 70%.Japan has been hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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":[41,311,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}