{"id":60522,"date":"2023-12-14T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/13\/festive-cheer-for-filipino-fishers-after-supply-boat-evades-chinese-vessels"},"modified":"2023-12-14T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:48:11","slug":"festive-cheer-for-filipino-fishers-after-supply-boat-evades-chinese-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60522","title":{"rendered":"Festive cheer for Filipino fishers after supply boat evades Chinese vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boat from Philippines with gifts for fishers, troops and coastguard in South China Sea slipped past vessels that intercepted festive flotilla<\/p>\n<p>It looked, for a time, as if Christmas had been cancelled. A Philippine mission by volunteers to bring the festive spirit to the fishers, troops and coastguard crew in the disputed South China Sea was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/10\/filipino-volunteers-send-santa-convoy-to-cheer-up-isles-disputed-by-bully-china\">forced to turn back on Sunday<\/a> after organisers said they had been shadowed and intercepted by Chinese vessels.<\/p>\n<p>But it later emerged that a smaller supply boat had managed to slip past the Chinese vessels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/13\/festive-cheer-for-filipino-fishers-after-supply-boat-evades-chinese-vessels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boat from Philippines with gifts for fishers, troops and coastguard in South China Sea slipped past vessels that intercepted festive flotillaIt looked, for a time, as if Christmas had been cancelled. A Philippine mission by volunteers to bring the fest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,50,55,535,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea","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\/60522","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60522\/revisions\/60523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}