{"id":9880,"date":"2017-10-08T02:51:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T00:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/08\/cook-islands-faces-its-worst-case-scenario-being-granted-developed-country-status\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T02:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T00:51:38","slug":"cook-islands-faces-its-worst-case-scenario-being-granted-developed-country-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=9880","title":{"rendered":"Cook Islands faces its &#039;worst case scenario&#039;, being granted developed country status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government officials worry new status will result in a cut in aid and could hurt the country\u2019s growth prospectsThe tiny nation of the Cook Islands is set to become the first among the Pacific islands to graduate to \u201cdeveloped\u201d status, in a move that some government officials are calling their \u201cworst case scenario\u201d.Some 99.99% of the Cook\u2019s territory is made up of ocean, with its 15 islands spread out over an area of nearly 2m sq km. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/08\/cook-islands-faces-its-worst-case-scenario-being-granted-developed-country-status\" target=\"_blank\">Cook Islands faces its &#039;worst case scenario&#039;, being granted developed country status<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government officials worry new status will result in a cut in aid and could hurt the country\u2019s growth prospectsThe tiny nation of the Cook Islands is set to become the first among the Pacific islands to graduate to \u201cdeveloped\u201d status, in a move that some government officials are calling their [&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-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","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=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}