{"id":291058,"date":"2021-07-24T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T12:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/291058\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T12:14:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T12:14:16","slug":"pandemic-hit-tokyo-olympics-open-in-low-key-ceremony-without-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/291058\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic-hit Tokyo Olympics open in low-key ceremony without fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRriNyj5oVk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe 2020 Summer Olympics has now officially started in Tokyo after being delayed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.<br \/>\nThere were only a handful of dignitaries at the opening ceremony because of COVID restrictions, but plenty of the usual fireworks and fanfare.<br \/>\nAl Jazeera&#8217;s Andy Richardson reports from Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Subscribe to our channel: http:\/\/aje.io\/AJSubscribe<br \/>\n&#8211; Follow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish<br \/>\n&#8211; Find us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera<br \/>\n&#8211; Check our website: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/p>\n<p>#AlJazeerenglish #Japan #TokyoOlympics #COVID19 #OpeningCeremony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 Summer Olympics has now officially started in Tokyo after being delayed for a year because of the cor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":291059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202487],"tags":[1973,1186,211293,211294,30843,211295,211296,211297,205145,79517,211298,8675,211292,5278,1467,1618,98690,24407,202490,202493,30423,33101,2491,30846,202492,39147,202491,202494,202580],"class_list":{"0":"post-291058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tokyo-olympics-2020","8":"tag-1973","9":"tag-1186","10":"tag-al-jazeera","11":"tag-al-jazeera-english","12":"tag-aljazeera","13":"tag-aljazeera-english","14":"tag-aljazeera-live","15":"tag-aljazeera-news","16":"tag-aljazeera-com","17":"tag-athletes","18":"tag-cancelling","19":"tag-coronavirus","20":"tag-cost","21":"tag-covid","22":"tag-covid-19","23":"tag-covid19","24":"tag-latest-news","25":"tag-olympics","26":"tag-olympics-2020","27":"tag-olympics-2021","28":"tag-opening-ceremony","29":"tag-pandemic","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-tokyo-2020","32":"tag-tokyo-2021","33":"tag-tokyo-olympics","34":"tag-tokyo-olympics-2020","35":"tag-tokyo-olympics-2021","36":"tag-tokyo-olympics-vlog"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}