{"id":5048,"date":"2019-07-30T09:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T00:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/jul\/30\/henderson-island-the-pacific-paradise-groaning-under-18-tonnes-of-plastic-waste"},"modified":"2019-07-30T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T00:57:28","slug":"henderson-island-the-pacific-paradise-groaning-under-18-tonnes-of-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5048","title":{"rendered":"Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rubbish has been washing up on its isolated beaches in the Pitcairn chain at a rate of several thousand bits of plastic a day <\/p>\n<p>Henderson Island, uninhabited and a day\u2019s sea crossing from the nearest sign of civilisation, should be an untouched paradise.<\/p>\n<p>Instead its beaches, which were awarded Unesco world heritage status in 1988, are a monument to humanity\u2019s destructive, disposable culture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/jul\/30\/henderson-island-the-pacific-paradise-groaning-under-18-tonnes-of-plastic-waste\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubbish has been washing up on its isolated beaches in the Pitcairn chain at a rate of several thousand bits of plastic a day Henderson Island, uninhabited and a day\u2019s sea crossing from the nearest sign of civilisation, should be an untouched paradise&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"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":[41,456,65,468,56,467,266,466,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-conservation","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-new-zealand","category-oceans","category-plastics","category-pollution","category-south-pacific","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\/5048","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\/305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5049,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}