{"id":49914,"date":"2022-11-03T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/03\/no-more-drinking-water-little-food-our-island-is-a-field-of-bones"},"modified":"2022-11-03T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:00:04","slug":"no-more-drinking-water-little-food-our-island-is-a-field-of-bones-katerina-teaiwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49914","title":{"rendered":"No more drinking water, little food: our island is a field of bones | Katerina Teaiwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banaba in the central Pacific is a microcosm of what has happened to this planet. It\u2019s a place that cannot be brought back into balance without focused and collaborative care<\/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>Some years ago, an Australian friend gave me a necklace with a beautiful and distinct pendant. <\/p>\n<p>The pendant had been in Helen Pilkinton\u2019s family for decades and there were two more from a set of three that were given to each of her sisters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/03\/no-more-drinking-water-little-food-our-island-is-a-field-of-bones\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banaba in the central Pacific is a microcosm of what has happened to this planet. It\u2019s a place that cannot be brought back into balance without focused and collaborative careBefore it is lost is series of essays from the Pacific islandsSome years ago, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3408,"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":[41,2331,65,591,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-kiribati","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\/49914","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\/3408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49915,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions\/49915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}