{"id":20905,"date":"2019-10-08T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p07qcnzq"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:05:00","slug":"passport-to-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/10\/08\/passport-to-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport to paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"Citizenship is changing; and half the world\u2019s governments are making money through citizenship schemes. In Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific Island Nation, a blossoming and controversial passport scheme is in place. Vanuatu\u2019s government says it needs the revenue to boost the weak economy, but many are asking why the money from passport sales does not seem to have trickled down, while growing Chinese influence in the region is becoming a common cause of concern.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07qcnzq\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizenship is changing; and half the world\u2019s governments are making money through citizenship schemes. In Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific Island Nation, a blossoming and controversial passport scheme is in place. Vanuatu\u2019s government says it needs the revenue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598712,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20905\/revisions\/1598712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}