{"id":28150,"date":"2019-01-07T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28150"},"modified":"2019-01-07T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:24:40","slug":"massive-tuna-nets-3-1-million-at-japan-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28150","title":{"rendered":"Massive tuna nets $3.1 million at Japan auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Self-proclaimed Japanese &#8220;Tuna King&#8221; and sushi restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura paid a record $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) for a giant bluefin tuna at the New Year&#8217;s auction at Tokyo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/tokyo-toyosu-fish-market\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toyosu fish market <\/a>Saturday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Kimura&#8217;s purchase doubled the previous record of 155 million yen, set at the 2013 annual New Year&#8217;s auction. The valuable and vulnerable fish tipped the scales at 612 pounds (278 kg).<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The president of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai said he was startled by how high the price went but not dissuaded from topping the record. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Self-proclaimed Japanese &#8220;Tuna King&#8221; and sushi restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura paid a record $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) for a giant bluefin tuna at the New Year&#8217;s auction at Tokyo&#8217;s Toyosu fish market Saturday. Kimura&#8217;s purchase doubled the previous record of 155 million yen, set at the 2013 annual New Year&#8217;s auction. The valuable and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28150","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\/28150","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=28150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}