{"id":40724,"date":"2022-01-17T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/not-knowing-is-heartbreaking-sleepless-nights-among-tongan-diaspora-after-contact-with-country-cut-off"},"modified":"2022-01-17T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:17:07","slug":"not-knowing-is-heartbreaking-sleepless-nights-among-tongan-diaspora-after-contact-with-country-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40724","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not knowing is heartbreaking\u2019: sleepless nights among Tongan diaspora after contact with country cut off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications blackout from undersea cable\u2019s apparent damage prompts some to turn to Facebook livestreams from outside Tonga for updates<\/p>\n<p>Since the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2018apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Seini Taumoepeau has barely slept.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say I\u2019ve had four hours [of sleep each night] at the most,\u201d says Taumoepeau, a Tongan-Australian artist and activist based in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/not-knowing-is-heartbreaking-sleepless-nights-among-tongan-diaspora-after-contact-with-country-cut-off\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications blackout from undersea cable\u2019s apparent damage prompts some to turn to Facebook livestreams from outside Tonga for updatesSince the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2018apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Seini Taumoepeau has barely slept.\u201cI would say I\u2019v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2798,"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":[41,43,56,280,2489,47,899],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-new-zealand","category-tonga","category-tonga-volcano","category-us-news","category-volcanoes"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40724","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\/2798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40725,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40724\/revisions\/40725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}