{"id":8420,"date":"2021-01-13T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/01\/in-the-face-of-criticism-laos-pushes-ahead-with-four-mekong-dams\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T22:45:00","slug":"in-the-face-of-criticism-laos-pushes-ahead-with-four-mekong-dams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/in-the-face-of-criticism-laos-pushes-ahead-with-four-mekong-dams\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Face of Criticism, Laos Pushes Ahead With Four Mekong Dams"},"content":{"rendered":"But costs and competition could leave the putative \"battery of Southeast Asia\" running on empty.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/01\/in-the-face-of-criticism-laos-pushes-ahead-with-four-mekong-dams\/\">The Diplomat<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But costs and competition could leave the putative &#8220;battery of Southeast Asia&#8221; running on empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":811,"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\/8420"}],"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\/811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8421,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}