{"id":58088,"date":"2023-09-05T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/terry-gou-taiwan-presidential-hopeful-free-pets-for-baby-birth-rate"},"modified":"2023-09-05T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T04:56:12","slug":"taiwan-presidential-hopeful-offers-pets-for-pregnancies-in-push-to-boost-birth-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58088","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan presidential hopeful offers pets for pregnancies in push to boost birth rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Gou, who entered the race last week, said the island\u2019s demographic crisis could be solved by giving expectant parents a cat or dog<\/p>\n<p>A billionaire presidential hopeful in Taiwan has proposed boosting the plummeting birthrate by offering couples free pets if they have a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Gou, the founder of Apple-supplier Foxconn, announced his intention to seek the presidency as an independent candidate last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/terry-gou-taiwan-presidential-hopeful-free-pets-for-baby-birth-rate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Gou, who entered the race last week, said the island\u2019s demographic crisis could be solved by giving expectant parents a cat or dogA billionaire presidential hopeful in Taiwan has proposed boosting the plummeting birthrate by offering couples free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58089,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088\/revisions\/58089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}