{"id":3170,"date":"2019-05-24T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2022-02-10T11:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T14:44:50","slug":"good-morning-diego-garcia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2019\/05\/good-morning-diego-garcia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning Diego Garcia!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Bravo to The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/unitednations\">United Nations<\/a>\u00a0general assembly for overwhelmingly backing a motion condemning Britain\u2019s occupation of the remote Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I crewed on a yacht in 1975 which hobbled into the atoll, just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, for a few days during the construction of the US top secret base. Only later, after landing in the Seychelles, did I meet Chago natives and learn of their broken hearts and forced departure from their beloved homeland.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/22\/uk-suffers-crushing-defeat-un-vote-chagos-islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read all about it. (opens in a new tab)\">Read all about it.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-3176\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/GMDC-seal-300-201x300-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bravo to The\u00a0United Nations\u00a0general assembly for overwhelmingly backing a motion condemning Britain\u2019s occupation of the remote Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. I crewed on a yacht in 1975 which hobbled into the atoll, just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, for a few days during the construction of the US top &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2019\/05\/good-morning-diego-garcia-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Morning Diego Garcia!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,89,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diego-garcia","category-indian-ocean","category-travel","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}