{"id":67622,"date":"2024-11-02T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T03:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/02\/typhoon-kong-rey-hit-taiwan-karaoke-bars-buzzed-official-day-off"},"modified":"2024-11-02T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T03:00:02","slug":"karaoke-and-kong-rey-taiwan-sings-through-biggest-typhoon-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67622","title":{"rendered":"Karaoke and Kong-rey: Taiwan sings through biggest typhoon in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018typhoon day\u2019 has come to mean one thing for many \u2013 a chance to indulge their favourite pastime<\/p>\n<p>The winds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/31\/typhoon-kong-rey-taiwan-storm-tracker-weather\">typhoon Kong-rey<\/a> howled through the streets of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, on Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, inside a brick and glass building people similarly wailed down the corridors of a branch of the Partyworld karaoke chain.<\/p>\n<p>Through the poorly soundproofed door of one room voices warbled a song by the Taiwanese rock band Mayday, and through another came the sounds of a song by Coldplay. In room 330, someone made an exasperated search through the song list \u2013 \u201cwhere is<em> <\/em>Kylie? What the hell! \u201d \u2013 as friends screamed lyrics from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/linkin-park\">Linkin Park<\/a> track.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/02\/typhoon-kong-rey-hit-taiwan-karaoke-bars-buzzed-official-day-off\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018typhoon day\u2019 has come to mean one thing for many \u2013 a chance to indulge their favourite pastimeThe winds of typhoon Kong-rey howled through the streets of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, on Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, inside a brick and glass build&#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":[41,455,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67622","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=67622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67622\/revisions\/67623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}