{"id":52848,"date":"2023-02-22T23:34:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/feb\/22\/japan-baffled-by-iron-ball-washed-up-on-beach-video-report"},"modified":"2023-02-22T23:34:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:34:33","slug":"japan-baffled-by-iron-ball-washed-up-on-beach-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52848","title":{"rendered":"Japan baffled by iron ball washed up on beach \u2013 video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are inspecting a large iron ball that washed up on a beach in Japan, but authorities have said they do not know what it is \u2013 only that it is not about to explode. Police began inspecting the ball, which is orangey-brown with what appear to be darker patches of rust, after a local woman spotted it resting on the sand metres from the shore while she was out for a walk earlier this week, Asahi TV reported. There are no indications, either, that it was involved in espionage by nearby North Korea or China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/mysterious-metal-iron-ball-sphere-beach-japan-officials-investigate\">Spy balloon, UFO or Dragon Ball? Japan baffled by iron ball washed up on beach<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/feb\/22\/japan-baffled-by-iron-ball-washed-up-on-beach-video-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are inspecting a large iron ball that washed up on a beach in Japan, but authorities have said they do not know what it is \u2013 only that it is not about to explode. Police began inspecting the ball, which is orangey-brown with what appear to be da&#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":[88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","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\/52848","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=52848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52849,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52848\/revisions\/52849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}