{"id":7067,"date":"2017-09-18T02:20:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/18\/hurricane-maria-storm-strengthens-as-it-heads-towards-battered-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T02:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:20:32","slug":"hurricane-maria-storm-strengthens-as-it-heads-towards-battered-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=7067","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Maria: storm strengthens as it heads towards battered Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico and the British and US Virgin Islands brace for impact less than two weeks after Irma hammered the regionAnother powerful storm was bearing down on a string of battered Caribbean islands on Sunday, with forecasters saying that Maria had strengthened into a hurricane and would intensify before hitting the Leeward Islands on Monday night.Maria was about 275 miles (445km) east-southeast of the Leeward island of Dominica with maximum sustained winds of 75mph (100km\/h) at 4pm (8pm GMT), the US National Hurricane Center said. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/18\/hurricane-maria-storm-strengthens-as-it-heads-towards-battered-caribbean\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Maria: storm strengthens as it heads towards battered Caribbean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico and the British and US Virgin Islands brace for impact less than two weeks after Irma hammered the regionAnother powerful storm was bearing down on a string of battered Caribbean islands on Sunday, with forecasters saying that Maria had strengthened into a hurricane and would intensify [&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-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","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=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}