{"id":64467,"date":"2019-11-15T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=64467"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:57:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:57:38","slug":"italy-declares-state-of-emergency-in-flood-hit-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/italy-declares-state-of-emergency-in-flood-hit-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy declares state of emergency in flood-hit Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Italian government has approved a state of emergency and 20 million euros ($22 million) is being set aside following Venice\u2019s worst flooding in over 50 years, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Thursday.<\/h2>\n<p>The northeastern city, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been flooded since Tuesday due to heavy rains that coincided with a high tide.<\/p>\n<p>The flood level reached 1.87 meters (6.1 feet) late Tuesday night &#8212; the second-highest level ever recorded in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Symbols of the city are underwater and many museums have closed.<\/p>\n<p>Conte said those affected by the flood could apply for 5,000 euros ($5,500) in initial compensation while businesses can get up to 20,000 euros ($22,000).<\/p>\n<p>Venice experiences floods every year, but its worst flood in history occurred in 1966 at 1.94 meters (6.36 feet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian government has approved a state of emergency and 20 million euros ($22 million) is being set aside following Venice\u2019s worst flooding in over 50 years, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Thursday. The northeastern city, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been flooded since Tuesday due to heavy rains that coincided with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[9454,961,14250,32898],"class_list":["post-64467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-floods","tag-italy","tag-unesco","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}