{"id":24454,"date":"2018-12-06T00:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24454"},"modified":"2018-12-06T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:22:40","slug":"japan-has-so-many-vacant-homes-its-giving-them-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24454","title":{"rendered":"Japan has so many vacant homes it&#8217;s giving them away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Okutama, Japan (CNN)<\/cite>Four years ago, Naoko and Takayuki Ida<strong> <\/strong>were given a house. For free. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It&#8217;s a spacious, two-story home nestled amid trees on a winding country road in the small town of Okutama, in Tokyo prefecture. Before moving, the couple and their children &#8212; two teenagers and a five-year-old &#8212; were all living with Naoko&#8217;s parents.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We had to do a lot of repair work (on our new home), but we&#8217;d always wanted to live in the countryside and have a big garden,&#8221; said Naoko, 45.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okutama, Japan (CNN)Four years ago, Naoko and Takayuki Ida were given a house. For free. It&#8217;s a spacious, two-story home nestled amid trees on a winding country road in the small town of Okutama, in Tokyo prefecture. Before moving, the couple and their children &#8212; two teenagers and a five-year-old &#8212; were all living with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}