{"id":15556,"date":"2018-09-18T22:23:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15556"},"modified":"2018-09-18T22:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:23:43","slug":"one-year-later-puerto-rico-still-needs-our-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15556","title":{"rendered":"One year later &#8212; Puerto Rico still needs our help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>One year after Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico, the island still struggles to recover. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Many of the agencies tasked with rescue and supply have transitioned to long-term rebuilding. You can support these groups through the &#8216;&#8221;Take Action&#8221; button below, or by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/publicgood.com\/media\/cnn\/campaign\/survivors-of-hurricane-maria-need-assistance\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Maria&#8217;s full destructive scale was not clear in the months after landfall, and the storm was followed by a slow, frustrating and deadly recovery. Three months afterward, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/12\/us\/sutter-maria-route-puerto-rico-invs\/index.html\">only a third of Puerto Rican households had received tarps for their damaged homes<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/20\/us\/puerto-rico-six-months-after-maria-corozal\/index.html\">Power was still not restored <\/a>for many across the island by the six-month mark. In August, the island government raised the death toll to 2,975, 46 times higher than their previous count. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)One year after Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico, the island still struggles to recover. Many of the agencies tasked with rescue and supply have transitioned to long-term rebuilding. You can support these groups through the &#8216;&#8221;Take Action&#8221; button below, or by clicking here. Maria&#8217;s full destructive scale was not clear in the months after landfall,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}