{"id":13776,"date":"2026-06-06T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:50:47","slug":"the-economist-june-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=13776","title":{"rendered":"The Economist (June 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou are having too many babies. For decades that crude message was drilled into the minds of Indians by their rulers.\u201d Slogans on schools proclaimed, \u201cTwo or three children, enough.\u201d There were even forced sterilizations in the 1970s. \u201cBut when Indian school textbooks are reprinted this summer, they will carry a very different message. They will warn not of the dangers of having too many babies, but of the risks of having too few.\u201d The \u201csurprise baby bust\u201d taking place in India \u201cis a warning to the world. It is not just rich places that are becoming less fertile.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou are having too many babies. For decades that crude message was drilled into the minds of Indians by their rulers.\u201d Slogans on schools proclaimed, \u201cTwo or three children, enough.\u201d There were even forced sterilizations in the 1970s. \u201cBut when Indian school textbooks are reprinted this summer, they will carry a very different message. They [&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":[11499,5838,12129,1348,18008,18005,278,18007,892,18006,6481,4972,7156],"class_list":["post-13776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-1970s","tag-babies","tag-baby-bust","tag-children","tag-fertile","tag-forced-sterilizations","tag-india","tag-rich-places","tag-schools","tag-slogans","tag-surprise","tag-textbooks","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13777,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions\/13777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}