{"id":2789,"date":"2014-04-07T13:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T04:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2014-04-07T13:31:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T04:31:35","slug":"new-york-times-april-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2789","title":{"rendered":"New York Times (April 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn reality, slower population growth creates enormous possibilities for human flourishing.\u201d Japan may be at the forefront of graying societies, but the nation is hardly alone. Most developed countries are already shrinking. Many developing countries, like China, are soon forecast to contract. This is fueling \u201cdark prophecies\u201d and causing alarm over the future. It shouldn\u2019t. \u201cPopulation doom of one kind or another is a recurring fad. Like most fads, this one can be safely ignored. Humanity has many legitimate problems to worry about. Falling fertility is not one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn reality, slower population growth creates enormous possibilities for human flourishing.\u201d Japan may be at the forefront of graying societies, but the nation is hardly alone. Most developed countries are already shrinking. Many developing countries, like China, are soon forecast to contract. This is fueling \u201cdark prophecies\u201d and causing alarm over the future. It shouldn\u2019t. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3551,6,3550,2416,3552,3553,1743,167,1059,3554,4,1186,3549,3548],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-alarm","tag-china","tag-dark-prophecies","tag-developing-countries","tag-doom","tag-fad","tag-fertility","tag-future","tag-graying","tag-humanity","tag-japan","tag-population-growth","tag-possibilities","tag-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}