{"id":44599,"date":"2022-05-18T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/18\/gambler-blows-towns-whole-covid-relief-fund-that-appeared-in-his-account"},"modified":"2022-05-18T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:35:10","slug":"gambler-blows-towns-whole-covid-relief-fund-that-appeared-in-his-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44599","title":{"rendered":"Japanese man blows town\u2019s Covid relief fund after it appeared in his account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Money should have gone to 463 low-income households but man received it all and commenced online casino spree<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese man who was mistakenly sent \u00a546.3m (\u00a3287,000\/US$358,000) in Covid-19 relief funds has admitted he gambled away the entire amount in the space of a fortnight.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old, who has not been named, was sent the sum in April as part of a local government programme to help residents who were struggling financially as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/18\/gambler-blows-towns-whole-covid-relief-fund-that-appeared-in-his-account\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money should have gone to 463 low-income households but man received it all and commenced online casino spreeA Japanese man who was mistakenly sent \u00a546.3m (\u00a3287,000\/US$358,000) in Covid-19 relief funds has admitted he gambled away the entire amount in &#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":[41,1730,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gambling","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44599","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=44599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44616,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44599\/revisions\/44616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}