{"id":54853,"date":"2023-05-05T01:47:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/04\/dense-jungle-not-on-the-lamma-island-i-remember"},"modified":"2023-05-05T01:47:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T16:47:25","slug":"dense-jungle-not-on-the-lamma-island-i-remember-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54853","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dense jungle\u2019? Not on the Lamma Island I remember | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to a Guardian article, the island is more of a day trip destination for Hongkongers than a forbidding outpost, writes <strong>John Weaver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jungle-filled island? Seriously? I thought I was reading about a different island from the one I\u2019d lived on for eight years when I read Nicholas Binge\u2019s report of life and the challenges of starting a family on Lamma Island, off the coast of Hong Kong (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/apr\/28\/giant-spiders-snakes-storms-having-a-baby-on-remote-jungle-island\" title=\"\">Giant spiders, snakes and storms: what could go wrong with having a baby on a remote, jungle-filled island?, 28 April<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I never came across the \u201cdense jungle\u201d he refers to. The island is criss-crossed by well-maintained, wide paths that allow easy access for delivery and emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/04\/dense-jungle-not-on-the-lamma-island-i-remember\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to a Guardian article, the island is more of a day trip destination for Hongkongers than a forbidding outpost, writes John WeaverJungle-filled island? Seriously? I thought I was reading about a different island from the one I\u2019d lived on for ei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[41,65,77,48,78,527,52,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-family","category-hong-kong","category-life-and-style","category-travel","category-uk-news","category-wildlife","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\/54853","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54854,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54853\/revisions\/54854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}