{"id":12043,"date":"2019-12-12T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/how-create-country-bougainville"},"modified":"2019-12-12T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:08:07","slug":"how-to-create-your-own-country-a-beginners-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12043","title":{"rendered":"How to create your own country &ndash; a beginner&#8217;s guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a national flag to sporting heroes, what will breakaway Bougainville need to become the world\u2019s newest state?<\/p>\n<p>Bougainville has voted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/bougainville-referendum-region-votes-overwhelmingly-for-independence-from-papua-new-guinea\">overwhelmingly for independence from Papua New Guinea<\/a>, but what happens next when you want to become an independent state? What do you have to do to become a new country?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/how-create-country-bougainville\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a national flag to sporting heroes, what will breakaway Bougainville need to become the world\u2019s newest state?Bougainville has voted overwhelmingly for independence from Papua New Guinea, but what happens next when you want to become an independent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,217,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cities","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12044,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions\/12044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}