{"id":807,"date":"2011-06-21T23:11:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T14:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=807"},"modified":"2011-06-22T23:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:13:19","slug":"the-wall-street-journal-june-20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Los Angeles Times (June 19)<!--:--><!--:ja-->Los Angeles Times (June 19)<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->\u201cThe largest population shift in human history\u201d is taking place. Every month over 5 million people leave the countryside for cities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. By 2050, an additional 3.1 billion people are expected to live in cities. In 1950, 70% of the world\u2019s population lived in rural areas. By 2050, 70% will live in urban areas. This massive migration offers both opportunity and danger. It is one of the forces behind \u201crevolutions in the Arab world\u201d and other current events. \u201cNever in human history have so many people changed their locations and lifestyles so quickly,\u201d yet this trend remains little noticed and misunderstood.<!--:--><!--:ja-->\u201cThe largest population shift in human history\u201d is taking place. Every month over 5 million people leave the countryside for cities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. By 2050, an additional 3.1 billion people are expected to live in cities. In 1950, 70% of the world\u2019s population lived in rural areas. By 2050, 70% will live in urban areas. This massive migration offers both opportunity and danger. It is one of the forces behind \u201crevolutions in the Arab world\u201d and other current events. \u201cNever in human history have so many people changed their locations and lifestyles so quickly,\u201d yet this trend remains little noticed and misunderstood.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe largest population shift in human history\u201d is taking place. Every month over 5 million people leave the countryside for cities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. By 2050, an additional 3.1 billion people are expected to live in cities. In 1950, 70% of the world\u2019s population lived in rural areas. By 2050, 70% [&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":[785,468,784],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-cities","tag-revolution","tag-urban-migration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}