{"id":67451,"date":"2024-10-25T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/25\/what-is-kava-the-peppery-tasting-slightly-intoxicating-drink-enjoyed-by-king-charles"},"modified":"2024-10-25T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:37:41","slug":"what-is-kava-the-peppery-tasting-slightly-intoxicating-drink-enjoyed-by-king-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67451","title":{"rendered":"What is kava? The peppery-tasting, slightly intoxicating drink enjoyed by King Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles sipped on kava on his visit to Samoa this week while an Australian politician paid a high price for downing too much in Micronesia<\/p>\n<p>Kava, the traditional Pacific drink, was served to King Charles III on Thursday while he was declared \u201chigh chief\u201d of Samoa on an 11-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/oct\/22\/barbecue-kangaroo-pies-and-jimmy-barnes-charles-and-camilla-go-quintessentially-australian-for-final-day-of-tour\">tour of the island nation and Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The brew made headlines in 2022 when Australia\u2019s former deputy prime minister was hospitalised after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/16\/i-went-cross-eyed-australias-former-deputy-pm-taken-to-hospital-after-drinking-entire-bowl-of-kava\">mistakenly drinking too much<\/a> kava at a ceremony in Micronesia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/25\/what-is-kava-the-peppery-tasting-slightly-intoxicating-drink-enjoyed-by-king-charles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles sipped on kava on his visit to Samoa this week while an Australian politician paid a high price for downing too much in MicronesiaKava, the traditional Pacific drink, was served to King Charles III on Thursday while he was declared \u201chigh c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4458,"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":[41,436,874,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67451","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\/4458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67452,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67451\/revisions\/67452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}