{"id":550,"date":"2007-07-04T06:57:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T05:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=550"},"modified":"2007-07-04T06:57:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T05:57:52","slug":"forgotten-world-88-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (88):  Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alaska\">Alaska<\/a> is one of the 50 states of the USA. It was purchased by the United States from Russian interests in 1867 for a mere $7M. It became the 49th state of the USA in 1959.<br \/>\nIt is easily the largest state in geographical size and, thanks to its minerals and oil, one of the richest and most ethnically diverse.  It has a population of only about 630,000 in an area of 663,267 square miles, so there is more than one square mile per person. The most populous city is Anchorage with 260,000 but the capital is Juneau. Alaska has the lowest individual tax burden in the USA and is one of only six states with no state sales tax and one of seven states that do not levy an individual income tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska is one of the 50 states of the USA. It was purchased by the United States from Russian interests in 1867 for a mere $7M. It became the 49th state of the USA in 1959. It is easily the largest state in geographical size and, thanks to its minerals and oil, one of the [&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-550","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\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}