{"id":474,"date":"2007-05-11T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=474"},"modified":"2007-05-11T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T06:40:20","slug":"forgotten-world-80-cook-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (80): Cook Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cook_Islands\">Cook Islands<\/a> has one of the tiniest poulations of any country in the world with just 18,700 citizens.This South Pacific Ocean nation consists of 15 small islands spread over 2.2 million square kilometres of ocean (roughly the size of India), divided into two distinct groups: the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands of coral atolls.<br \/>\nIt is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand which is responsible for its defence. Unusually the Cook Islands are not part of the United Nations. Tourism is the country&#8217;s number one industry, far ahead of offshore banking, pearls, marine and fruit exports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cook Islands has one of the tiniest poulations of any country in the world with just 18,700 citizens.This South Pacific Ocean nation consists of 15 small islands spread over 2.2 million square kilometres of ocean (roughly the size of India), divided into two distinct groups: the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands [&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-474","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\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}