{"id":304,"date":"2007-01-19T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T06:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=304"},"modified":"2007-01-19T07:49:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T06:49:14","slug":"forgotten-world-60-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (60): Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominated for centuries by Norway and Denmark, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iceland\">Iceland<\/a> became an independent republic in 1944. It only has a population of 292,000, but its citizens enjoy a standard of living among the highest in the world.<br \/>\nFor many years, the country&#8217;s prosperity depended on the fishing industry. While fish still makes up a large proportion of exports, it now accounts for less than 10% of gross domestic product. The economy is developing in new areas, not least tourism. banking and finance.<br \/>\nAmerican forces had been stationed in the country without a break since World War II, but the last US troops left in September 2006. Although it has no armed forces, it is a member of NATO and the US says it will continue to defend Iceland as a NATO ally.  Iceland remains outside the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominated for centuries by Norway and Denmark, Iceland became an independent republic in 1944. It only has a population of 292,000, but its citizens enjoy a standard of living among the highest in the world. For many years, the country&#8217;s prosperity depended on the fishing industry. While fish still makes up a large proportion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","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\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}