{"id":66322,"date":"2024-08-21T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T00:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/wwii-bombs-shells-solomon-islands-school"},"modified":"2024-08-21T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T00:49:32","slug":"more-than-200-unexploded-second-world-war-shells-found-near-solomon-islands-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66322","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 unexploded second world war shells found near Solomon Islands school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police dug up and removed the rust-caked projectiles, which belonged to US troops during the second world war<\/p>\n<p>Workers at a school in Solomon Islands discovered a buried stockpile of the second world war munitions as they \u201cdug a hole for sewage\u201d, police said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 rust-caked projectiles \u2013 which once belonged to US troops \u2013 have been dug up and removed after they were found near a school staff member\u2019s house, the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/wwii-bombs-shells-solomon-islands-school\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police dug up and removed the rust-caked projectiles, which belonged to US troops during the second world warWorkers at a school in Solomon Islands discovered a buried stockpile of the second world war munitions as they \u201cdug a hole for sewage\u201d, police &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,874,220,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-second-world-war","category-solomon-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66322","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66323,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66322\/revisions\/66323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}