{"id":103074,"date":"2019-07-24T02:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/24\/backward-step-for-mankind-man-walks-800km-in-reverse-to-save-indonesias-forests\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T02:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:07:20","slug":"backward-step-for-mankind-man-walks-800km-in-reverse-to-save-indonesias-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=103074","title":{"rendered":"Backward step for mankind: man walks 800km in reverse to save Indonesia\u2019s forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medi Bastoni hopes to get to meet the president when he arrives in Jakarta, in several weeks A man from a village in East Java has embarked on an unconventional mission to raise awareness about preserving forests: he is walking 800km to Indonesia\u2019s capital, backwards.Medi Bastoni hopes that, after taking thousands of steps backwards \u2013 and hopefully forwards for mankind \u2013 he will have the opportunity to meet President Joko Widodo so he can ask him for a symbolic tree seed, which he intends to plant on the slopes of Mount Wilis. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/24\/backward-step-for-mankind-man-walks-800km-in-reverse-to-save-indonesias-forests\" target=\"_blank\">Backward step for mankind: man walks 800km in reverse to save Indonesia\u2019s forests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medi Bastoni hopes to get to meet the president when he arrives in Jakarta, in several weeks A man from a village in East Java has embarked on an unconventional mission to raise awareness about preserving forests: he is walking 800km to Indonesia\u2019s capital, backwards.Medi Bastoni hopes that, after taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}