{"id":6631,"date":"2012-04-04T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:19:53","slug":"maldives-still-sinking-an-interview-with-former-president-mohammed-nasheed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/04\/04\/maldives-still-sinking-an-interview-with-former-president-mohammed-nasheed\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives Still Sinking – An Interview with Former President Mohamed Nasheed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maldives<\/a>The Maldives aren’t sinking, of course.\u00a0 Sea level is rising, and since the highest point in the Maldives is 1.5 meters above sea level, the people who live there are quickly running out of land<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, was interviewed by Jon Stewart this week.\u00a0 In this unedited interview, the two talk about the problems of the Maldives, how those problems really highlight global warming, and a bit about politics.<\/p>\n

Part one of the interview:<\/p>\n

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/strong>
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Part two of the interview:<\/p>\n

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/strong>
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Maldives over water bungalow<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Maldives aren’t sinking, of course. Sea level is rising, and since the highest point in the Maldives is 1.5 meters above sea level, the people who live there are quickly running out of land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[2854,1146,1276,1936],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Maldives-Bungalow.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}