{"id":140823,"date":"2022-06-20T00:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T05:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/chinas-population-is-about-to-shrink-heres-what-it-means-for-the-world"},"modified":"2022-06-20T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T05:03:12","slug":"chinas-population-is-about-to-shrink-heres-what-it-means-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/chinas-population-is-about-to-shrink-heres-what-it-means-for-the-world","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s population is about to shrink, here\u2019s what it means for the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-population-is-about-to-shrink-heres-what-it-means-for-the-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After four extraordinary decades in which China\u2019s population has swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time since the great famine of 1959\u20131961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four extraordinary decades in which China\u2019s population has swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time since the great famine of 1959\u20131961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}