{"id":46183,"date":"2022-07-08T22:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-shooting-japan-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-video"},"modified":"2022-07-08T22:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T13:45:06","slug":"unforgivable-japans-prime-minister-condemns-shinzo-abes-shooting-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46183","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unforgivable&#8217;: Japan&#8217;s prime minister condemns Shinzo Abe&#8217;s shooting \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Japanese prime minister&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/shinzo-abe\">Shinzo Abe<\/a>&nbsp;has died after being shot while making a campaign speech, plunging the country into grief over the loss of its longest-serving PM. &#8216;The free and fair election, which is the root of democracy, needs to be protected no matter what. We will not be defeated by violence,&#8217; said the current prime minister, Fumio Kishida, Abe\u2019s protege, struggling to keep his emotions in check<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">Shinzo Abe, Japan\u2019s former prime minister, dies after being shot<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-shooting-japan-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Japanese prime minister&nbsp;Shinzo Abe&nbsp;has died after being shot while making a campaign speech, plunging the country into grief over the loss of its longest-serving PM. &#8216;The free and fair election, which is the root of democracy, need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","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\/46183","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46184,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183\/revisions\/46184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}