{"id":1460,"date":"2013-01-24T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2013-07-23T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:31:49","slug":"before-the-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/before-the-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Description: <\/strong>Before the Flood documents the engrossing story of the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu, once the world\u2019s third-poorest country. In 1999, Tuvalu\u2019s government sold its .tv Internet name for $25 million. The 11,000 citizens then spent $6 million tarring 19km of roads, to use their new petrol-powered cars and bikes. But these roads may be under water within two decades. Tuvalu could be the first country to disappear through rising sea-levels caused by global warming. This tiny nation is determined to fight \u2013 with an environmental lawsuit against the world\u2019s worst polluters.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tuvali-front-proof-copy-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tuvali-front-proof-copy-2-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"tuvali-front-proof-copy-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tuvali-front-proof-copy-2-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tuvali-front-proof-copy-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Director: <\/strong>Paul Lindsay<br \/>\n<strong>Year: <\/strong>2004<br \/>\n<strong>Length: <\/strong>70 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Country: <\/strong>United Kingdom<br \/>\n<strong>Distributor: <\/strong>Stampede Films [gb]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description: Before the Flood documents the engrossing story of the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu, once the world\u2019s third-poorest country. In 1999, Tuvalu\u2019s government sold its .tv Internet name for $25 million. The 11,000 citizens then spent $6 million tarring 19km of roads, to use their new petrol-powered cars and bikes. But these roads may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[132,166],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-films-2","tag-global-warming","tag-sea-level","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalkaboutwater.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}