{"id":9597,"date":"2009-09-15T09:06:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T09:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=9597"},"modified":"2009-09-15T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T09:06:19","slug":"french-west-indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=9597","title":{"rendered":"French West Indies ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Saint_Barth-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9598\" title=\"Saint_Barth\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Saint_Barth-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Saint_Barth\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Caribbean islands are called the <em>West Indies<\/em> because when Christopher Columbus landed there in 1492 he believed that he had reached the Indies (in Asia). The <em>French<\/em> West Indies (<em>Antilles fran\u00e7aises<\/em>) refers to the four territories presently under French sovereignty in the Caribbean: the two overseas departments of<strong> <\/strong><strong>Guadeloupe<\/strong> (including the islands of Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Terre-de-Haut, Terre-de-Bas, Marie-Galante, La D\u00e9sirade) and <strong>Martinique<\/strong><strong><\/strong>, plus the two overseas collectivities of <strong>Saint Martin<\/strong> and <strong>Saint-Barth\u00e9lemy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean islands are called the West Indies because when Christopher Columbus landed there in 1492 he believed that he had reached the Indies (in Asia). The French West Indies (Antilles fran\u00e7aises) refers to the four territories presently under French sovereignty in the Caribbean: the two overseas departments of Guadeloupe (including the islands of Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[508,509,511,512,513],"class_list":["post-9597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islands","tag-french-west-indies","tag-guadeloupe","tag-martinique","tag-saint-martin","tag-saint-barthelemy","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}