{"id":38053,"date":"2021-10-16T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/16\/my-father-will-go-down-like-the-captain-of-the-titanic-life-on-the-pacifics-disappearing-islands"},"modified":"2021-10-16T04:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:00:37","slug":"my-father-will-go-down-like-the-captain-of-the-titanic-life-on-the-pacifics-disappearing-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38053","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My father will go down like the captain of the Titanic\u2019: life on the Pacific\u2019s disappearing islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the Saposa Islands are wrestling with the dilemma of starting a new life on the mainland or staying to watch their homes vanish<\/p>\n<p>Francis Tony is buried on an island that is shrinking.<\/p>\n<p>The sea breaks on a shoreline that is now less than five metres away from his simple gravesite on Toruar Island in the Solomon Sea. But his son Christopher Sese says the family have no plans to move Tony\u2019s bones to a new gravesite.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/16\/my-father-will-go-down-like-the-captain-of-the-titanic-life-on-the-pacifics-disappearing-islands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the Saposa Islands are wrestling with the dilemma of starting a new life on the mainland or staying to watch their homes vanishFrancis Tony is buried on an island that is shrinking.The sea breaks on a shoreline that is now less than five metres&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"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":[41,945,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","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\/38053","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\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38063,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38053\/revisions\/38063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}