{"id":823,"date":"2008-02-14T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T05:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=823"},"modified":"2008-02-14T06:58:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T05:58:29","slug":"forgotten-world-124-nauru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (124): Nauru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Named Pleasant Island by its first European visitors, the former British colony of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nauru\">Nauru<\/a> is the world&#8217;s smallest island nation, covering just 21 km\u00b2 (8.1 sq. mi), and the world&#8217;s smallest independent republic with a a mere 10,000 citizens, as well as being the only republican state in the world without an official capital.<br \/>\nThis tiny Pacific island once generated a per capita income out of proportion to its size, but the source of this wealth &#8211; phosphates &#8211; is nearing exhaustion, leaving the islanders facing an uncertain future. While the mining of 1,000 years&#8217; worth of fossilised bird droppings has been lucrative, Nauru relies on imports for almost everything &#8211; from food and water to fuel. Moreover, recent financial crises have precipitated a slide into bankruptcy and a dependence on aid. The country had to sell off its assets in Australia to pay off a multi-million dollar debt to a US corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Named Pleasant Island by its first European visitors, the former British colony of Nauru is the world&#8217;s smallest island nation, covering just 21 km\u00b2 (8.1 sq. mi), and the world&#8217;s smallest independent republic with a a mere 10,000 citizens, as well as being the only republican state in the world without an official capital. This [&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-823","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\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}