{"id":2877,"date":"2011-07-19T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2011-07-19T13:47:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T17:47:44","slug":"somalia-and-the-f-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2877","title":{"rendered":"Somalia and the F-Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go, it looks like we can now speak the dreaded f-word. Famine, that is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The UN is expected on Wednesday to declare that parts of southern\u00a0Somalia\u00a0are now in\u00a0famine\u00a0amid the worst drought to hit east\u00a0Africa\u00a0in 60 years.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Technically, a famine is a crude mortality rate of more than two people per 10,000 per day; acute malnutrition reaching more than 30 percent; water consumption becoming less than four liters a day; and intake of kilocalories of 1,500 a day compared with the recommended 2,100 a day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More from\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0<a title=\"UN Expected to Declare Famine in South Somalia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/global-development\/2011\/jul\/19\/famine-south-somalia\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go, it looks like we can now speak the dreaded f-word. Famine, that is: &#8220;The UN is expected on Wednesday to declare that<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2877\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somalia and the F-Word<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,55,63,26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-development","category-economics","category-famine","category-food","category-policy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-Kp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}