{"id":35467,"date":"2018-04-05T03:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T01:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/05\/cesspool-philippines-president-closes-billion-dollar-holiday-island-over-raw-sewage\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T03:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T01:26:48","slug":"cesspool-philippines-president-closes-billion-dollar-holiday-island-over-raw-sewage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=35467","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Cesspool&#039;: Philippines president closes billion-dollar holiday island over raw sewage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrigo Duterte shuts Boracay, the country\u2019s best-known holiday island, which gets two million tourist visits each yearThe Philippines has announced its best-known holiday island Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a \u201ccesspool\u201d tainted by dumped sewage.Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the shutdown to start on 26 April, his spokesman Harry Roque said on Twitter, without providing further detail. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/05\/philippines-boracay-holiday-island-sewage-closed-duterte\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Cesspool&#039;: Philippines president closes billion-dollar holiday island over raw sewage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrigo Duterte shuts Boracay, the country\u2019s best-known holiday island, which gets two million tourist visits each yearThe Philippines has announced its best-known holiday island Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a \u201ccesspool\u201d tainted by dumped sewage.Philippine President [&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-35467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467","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=35467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}