{"id":3007,"date":"2010-07-15T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2012-09-29T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:20:55","slug":"forgotten-world-214-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3007","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (214): Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\">Puerto Rico<\/a> (Spanish for &#8216;rich port&#8217;) is a Caribbean island that is almost part of the United States &#8211; it is technically a sef-governing, unincorporated territory of the USA.\u00a0 The US invaded and occupied the island during the Spanish-American War of 1898, ending centuries of rule from Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Under American administration, Puerto Rico saw growth and  development, but nationalist sentiment sometimes spilled over into  violence, notably in the 1930s and 1940s, and a series of bombings and  killings in the 1970s and 1980s were blamed on a pro-independence group.<\/p>\n<p>The 4 million Puerto Ricans, who elect a  governor for the island, have tended to favour parties that support the  union with the US.\u00a0 They do not pay US income tax but the  island receives federal funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico (Spanish for &#8216;rich port&#8217;) is a Caribbean island that is almost part of the United States &#8211; it is technically a sef-governing, unincorporated territory of the USA.\u00a0 The US invaded and occupied the island during the Spanish-American War of 1898, ending centuries of rule from Spain. Under American administration, Puerto Rico saw growth [&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-3007","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\/3007","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=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9562,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions\/9562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}