{"id":60377,"date":"2023-12-06T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T04:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/tokyo-taxi-driver-arrested-accused-of-running-over-pigeon"},"modified":"2023-12-06T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T04:38:48","slug":"tokyo-taxi-driver-arrested-accused-of-running-over-pigeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60377","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo taxi driver arrested, accused of running over pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atsushi Ozawa accused of using car to kill common pigeon, which vets said died of traumatic shock<\/p>\n<p>To some, they are another species of feathered friend; to others, they are rats with wings whose droppings deface historic buildings.<\/p>\n<p>But in Japan, pigeons may have become the victims of crime, after police arrested a Tokyo taxi driver on suspicion of deliberately driving into a flock of the birds, killing one of them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/tokyo-taxi-driver-arrested-accused-of-running-over-pigeon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atsushi Ozawa accused of using car to kill common pigeon, which vets said died of traumatic shockTo some, they are another species of feathered friend; to others, they are rats with wings whose droppings deface historic buildings.But in Japan, pigeons &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[265,41,337,88,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-birds","category-japan","category-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60377","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60378,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60377\/revisions\/60378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}