{"id":43144,"date":"2022-04-01T13:46:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T04:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/taste-for-free-curry-leaves-japanese-defence-force-members-in-a-pickle"},"modified":"2022-04-01T13:46:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T04:46:26","slug":"taste-for-free-curry-leaves-japanese-defence-force-members-in-a-pickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43144","title":{"rendered":"Taste for free curry leaves Japanese defence force members in a pickle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six members receive brief suspensions after years of eating free \u2018navy curry\u2019 they were not entitled to<\/p>\n<p>A keen appetite for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\/curry\">curry<\/a> has landed six members of Japan\u2019s maritime self-defence forces (SDF) in trouble, after it emerged that they had been tucking into the dish without paying for up to three years.<\/p>\n<p>The SDF members, including an officer in his 50s, helped themselves to free curry at Hachinohe air base in north-east Japan, apparently ignoring rules requiring them to pay, according to Japanese media reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/taste-for-free-curry-leaves-japanese-defence-force-members-in-a-pickle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six members receive brief suspensions after years of eating free \u2018navy curry\u2019 they were not entitled toA keen appetite for curry has landed six members of Japan\u2019s maritime self-defence forces (SDF) in trouble, after it emerged that they had been tuckin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,1618,311,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-curry","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\/43144","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43145,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144\/revisions\/43145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}