{"id":16530,"date":"2015-01-12T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T11:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16530"},"modified":"2015-01-12T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T11:11:44","slug":"remembering-the-earthquake-in-haiti-five-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16530","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the earthquake in Haiti five years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly five years ago today, the people of Haiti suffered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_Haiti_earthquake\">a terrible earthquake<\/a> that registered a catastrophic 7.0 on the\u00a0moment magnitude scale. What was the result and what has happened since?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The death toll will never be known but estimates vary between 90,000-300,000.<\/li>\n<li>The number of people displaced was around 1.5 million.<\/li>\n<li>A cholera epidemic which started later that year has killed a further 9,000.<\/li>\n<li>According to one UN leader, the money needed in international aid is $2.2 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The amount of money pledged so far by international donors is $407 million &#8211; just 18% of the total required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2015\/jan\/12\/haiti-earthquake-five-years-on-village-solidarite\">article <\/a>in today&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly five years ago today, the people of Haiti suffered a terrible earthquake that registered a catastrophic 7.0 on the\u00a0moment magnitude scale. What was the result and what has happened since? The death toll will never be known but estimates vary between 90,000-300,000. The number of people displaced was around 1.5 million. A cholera epidemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530","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=16530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16533,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions\/16533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}