{"id":1072,"date":"2008-09-01T08:12:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2008-09-01T08:12:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:12:34","slug":"forgotten-world-141-sardinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (141): Sardinia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been two months since I&#8217;ve run a week of postings in my long-running series called Forgotten World &#8211; a look at parts of the world that hardly feature in our media or thoughts. You can check the previous 140 entries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/#currentaffairs\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sardinia\">Sardinia<\/a> is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily). The island &#8211; with a population of 1.7 million &#8211; is a constitutional part of Italy, with a special statute of regional autonomy under the Italian Constitution.<br \/>\nSardinia is one of two Italian regions whose inhabitants have been recognized as a &#8220;popolo&#8221; (i.e. a distinct people) by a local Statute (which is adopted with a Constitutional Law). The other region is Veneto (but this was not through a Constitutional Law). The most spoken language in Sardinia is, undoubtedly, Italian, but Sardinian &#8211; a Romance language of Latin origin &#8211;  is widely spoken too in the inner areas.<br \/>\nThe Sardinian economy is today focused on tourism, mining, commerce, services and information technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been two months since I&#8217;ve run a week of postings in my long-running series called Forgotten World &#8211; a look at parts of the world that hardly feature in our media or thoughts. You can check the previous 140 entries here. Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily). The island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}