{"id":2898,"date":"2012-03-04T23:53:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2012\/03\/04\/maldives-climate-champion-president-forced-to\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T23:53:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:53:15","slug":"maldives-climate-champion-president-forced-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/04\/maldives-climate-champion-president-forced-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives’ Climate Champion President Forced To Resign At Gunpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maldives’ Climate Champion President Forced To Resign At Gunpoint<\/a><\/p>\n

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treehugger<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not often that there\u2019s a place for genuine straight geopolitical news on TreeHugger, but this is unfortunately one of those times. Details are still coming in, hours after the fact, but the picture that\u2019s emerging is that President Mohamed Nasheed<\/a> of the Maldives was forced to resign at gunpoint in a military coup yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maldives’ Climate Champion President Forced To Resign At Gunpoint treehugger: It\u2019s not often that there\u2019s a place for genuine straight geopolitical news on TreeHugger, but this is unfortunately one of those times. Details are still coming in, hours after the fact, but the picture that\u2019s emerging is that President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,43,128,8,149,154,152,111,102,153],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-video_graphics","tag-activism","tag-anni","tag-baagee","tag-maldives","tag-maldives-coup","tag-military-coup","tag-mohamed-naheed","tag-police-state","tag-puppet","tag-waheed","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-KK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2982,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/04\/26133137-since-the-coup-in-maldives-call-for\/","url_meta":{"origin":2898,"position":0},"title":"26:13:31:37 since the coup in maldives. call for immediate elections!","author":"monochromist","date":"March 4, 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"26:13:31:37 since the coup in maldives. call for immediate elections!The first democratically elected Maldivian government was forced out at gunpoint on 7 February 2012 by elements in the military and opposition. 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