{"id":37809,"date":"2021-10-08T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T04:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/08\/it-was-a-nice-break-from-everything-two-men-rescued-after-29-days-lost-at-sea"},"modified":"2021-10-08T13:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T04:33:59","slug":"it-was-a-nice-break-from-everything-two-men-rescued-after-29-days-lost-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37809","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was a nice break from everything\u2019: two men rescued after 29 days lost at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surviving on oranges they\u2019d packed, coconuts from the sea and rainwater they collected, they floated about 400km in the Solomon Sea before being rescued<\/p>\n<p>Two men from Solomon Islands who spent 29 days lost at sea after their GPS tracker stopped working have been rescued off the coast of Papua New Guinea \u2013 400 kilometres away from where their journey began.<\/p>\n<p>Livae Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni set out from Mono Island, in Western province, Solomon Islands, on the morning of the 3 September in a small, single 60 horsepower motorboat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/08\/it-was-a-nice-break-from-everything-two-men-rescued-after-29-days-lost-at-sea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surviving on oranges they\u2019d packed, coconuts from the sea and rainwater they collected, they floated about 400km in the Solomon Sea before being rescuedTwo men from Solomon Islands who spent 29 days lost at sea after their GPS tracker stopped working h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"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":[41,874,267,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-solomon-islands","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\/37809","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\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37809\/revisions\/37810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}