{"id":5419,"date":"2011-04-14T10:19:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2011-04-14T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T09:22:16","slug":"forgotten-world-239-sao-tome-principe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5419","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (239): Sao Tome &#038; Principe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously a Portuguese colony and now one of Africa&#8217;s smallest countries, with a population of a mere 165,000, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sao_Tome_%26_Principe\">Sao Tome and Principe<\/a> consists of  two islands of volcanic origin and a number of smaller  islets. It is trying to shake off its dependence on the cocoa crop,  since falls in  production and prices left the island state heavily  reliant on foreign  aid.<\/p>\n<p>The government has been encouraging economic diversification and is   set to exploit the billions of barrels of oil which are thought to lie   off the country&#8217;s coast. Drilling is under way and commercial production  is expected to begin within a few years. Already though, arguments have  arisen over how to spend the expected windfall, leading to political  tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously a Portuguese colony and now one of Africa&#8217;s smallest countries, with a population of a mere 165,000, Sao Tome and Principe consists of two islands of volcanic origin and a number of smaller islets. It is trying to shake off its dependence on the cocoa crop, since falls in production and prices left the [&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-5419","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\/5419","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=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}