{"id":46144,"date":"2022-07-08T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T04:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-former-japan-prime-minister-shot-during-speech-reports"},"modified":"2022-07-08T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T06:42:06","slug":"shinzo-abe-shooting-former-japanese-prime-minister-attacked-during-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46144","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe shooting: former Japanese prime minister attacked during speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM collapses after being shot during campaign speech ahead of upper house elections on Sunday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-shot-live-news-former-japan-prime-minister-feared-dead-shooting-japanese-pm-attack-speech\">Live updates: former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is in a critical condition after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara.<\/p>\n<p>His successor, Fumio Kishida called the shooting an unforgivable act, and said he hoped Abe \u2013 the country\u2019s longest-serving prime minister until he resigned in 2020 \u2013would survive the attack.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-former-japan-prime-minister-shot-during-speech-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM collapses after being shot during campaign speech ahead of upper house elections on SundayLive updates: former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shotFormer Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is in a critical condition after being shot while making a speech&#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":[88,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46144","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=46144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46171,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46144\/revisions\/46171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}