{"id":5997,"date":"2011-06-23T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2011-06-23T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:35:33","slug":"forgotten-world-244-tristan-da-cunha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5997","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (244): Tristan da Cunha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tristan_da_Cunha\">Tristan da Cunha<\/a> was at one time on the main trading route  between Europe and the Indian Ocean, but the tiny community of 275 living  there is now extremely isolated. It is situated 2,800 km west of  Cape Town, South Africa, and is part of a group of islands which  includes Inaccessible, Nightingale, Middle, Stoltenhoff, and Gough which has a manned weather station.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tristan da Cunha&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tristandc.com\/\">official  website<\/a> the island &#8220;was ignored by early explorers as a possible home  due to its rugged mountain landscape, absence of natural harbour, lack  of land for agriculture, and a harsh climate with heavy rain and high  winds at all seasons. It took an extra-ordinary breed of people, ready  to live at the margins of life, to settle and eventually thrive in the  world&#8217;s most isolated community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan da Cunha was at one time on the main trading route between Europe and the Indian Ocean, but the tiny community of 275 living there is now extremely isolated. It is situated 2,800 km west of Cape Town, South Africa, and is part of a group of islands which includes Inaccessible, Nightingale, Middle, Stoltenhoff, [&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-5997","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\/5997","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=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}