{"id":49887,"date":"2022-11-02T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/02\/how-do-we-mourn-an-island-where-do-we-mark-its-grave"},"modified":"2022-11-02T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:00:35","slug":"how-do-we-mourn-an-islet-where-do-we-mark-its-grave-kathy-jetnil-kijiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49887","title":{"rendered":"How do we mourn an islet? Where do we mark its grave? |  Kathy Jetn\u0304il-Kijiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellekan, an islet in Marshall Islands, has been reduced to a pile of sand in the middle of the reef. Those who loved it have already held its funeral<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/before-it-is-lost\">Before it is lost<\/a><\/strong> is series of essays from the Pacific islands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a trip to the islet of Kalalen, eight years ago, a man named Yoster Harris ran out to meet me.<\/p>\n<p>Yoster is married to the alap, or landowner, of Kalalen and he took my hand and led me to point out Ellekan, a neighbouring islet at the very end of the Majuro atoll lagoon, in my home of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/02\/how-do-we-mourn-an-island-where-do-we-mark-its-grave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellekan, an islet in Marshall Islands, has been reduced to a pile of sand in the middle of the reef. Those who loved it have already held its funeralBefore it is lost is series of essays from the Pacific islandsOn a trip to the islet of Kalalen, eight &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3406,"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":[41,2331,65,602,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","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\/49887","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\/3406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49888,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49887\/revisions\/49888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}