{"id":36513,"date":"2021-09-06T18:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/06\/german-ambassador-to-china-dies-less-than-two-weeks-into-posting-jan-hecker"},"modified":"2021-09-06T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T11:32:55","slug":"german-ambassador-to-china-dies-less-than-two-weeks-into-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36513","title":{"rendered":"German ambassador to China dies less than two weeks into posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Merkel \u2018profoundly shaken\u2019 by death of Jan Hecker, 54, one of her top foreign policy advisers<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, has died suddenly at the age of 54, less than two weeks into his Beijing posting.<\/p>\n<p>Hecker was a former foreign policy adviser to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/06\/german-ambassador-to-china-dies-less-than-two-weeks-into-posting-jan-hecker\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Merkel \u2018profoundly shaken\u2019 by death of Jan Hecker, 54, one of her top foreign policy advisersGermany\u2019s ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, has died suddenly at the age of 54, less than two weeks into his Beijing posting.Hecker was a former foreign &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2544,"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":[711,41,50,221,533,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angela-merkel","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-germany","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\/36513","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\/2544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36513\/revisions\/36530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}