{"id":81115,"date":"2014-06-04T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T09:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50803"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:50:45","slug":"gunkanjima-becomes-national-historic-site","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/gunkanjima-becomes-national-historic-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunkanjima Becomes National Historic Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hashima Island (also known as \u201cGunkanjima\u201d or \u201cBattleship Island\u201d) in Nagasaki, the abandoned island once home to a bustling coal mining town, will become a designated National Historic Site in June. This new status allows the site to apply for more government grants, and is crucial in the bid for the island to be considered for World Heritage listing. UNESCO will visit the site this summer. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 6\/2<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-50804\" alt=\"Gunkanjima_Island\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gunkanjima_Island.jpg?w=640\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gunkanjima_Island.jpg?w=1846&amp;ssl=1 1846w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gunkanjima_Island.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gunkanjima_Island.jpg?resize=1024%2C644&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto credit: (Wikipedia \/ Jordy Meow):<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hashima_Island\" target=\"_blank\"> Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hashima (also known as \u201cGunkanjima\u201d or \u201cBattleship Island\u201d) in Nagasaki, the abandoned island once home to a bustling coal mining town, will become a designated National Historic Site in June. This new status will allow the site to apply for more government grants, and is crucial in the bid for the island to be considered for World Heritage listing. UNESCO will visit the site this summer. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 6\/2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":50804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81115","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}