{"id":29937,"date":"2018-02-14T14:39:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29937"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:39:46","slug":"monster-cyclone-rips-through-south-pacific-tonga-hit-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/02\/monster-cyclone-rips-through-south-pacific-tonga-hit-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Cyclone Rips through South Pacific: Tonga Hit Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonga residents woke up to chaotic scenes on Tuesday after Cyclone Gita tore through the Pacific island nation in the middle of the night, destroying homes, flooding neighborhoods and even flattening the country\u2019s parliament building.<\/p>\n<p>The tropical cyclone, which hit Tonga with the force of a Category 4 hurricane, is believed to be\u00a0most powerful cyclone ever recorded to hit the small Pacific nation, according to officials. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/cyclone-gita-wreaks-havoc-pacific-island-flattening-parliament-804451\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonga residents woke up to chaotic scenes on Tuesday after Cyclone Gita tore through the Pacific island nation in the middle of the night, destroying homes, flooding neighborhoods and even flattening the country\u2019s parliament building. The tropical cyclone, which hit Tonga with the force of a Category 4 hurricane, is believed to be\u00a0most powerful cyclone ever recorded to hit the small Pacific nation, according to officials. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29938,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions\/29938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}