{"id":69128,"date":"2017-03-19T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69128"},"modified":"2017-03-19T16:31:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:31:43","slug":"barack-obama-to-spend-a-month-in-french-polynesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69128","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama to spend a month in French Polynesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69129\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/c1ae47a62deb4843e83b0ccab189d26a7f9625e0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69129\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69129\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/c1ae47a62deb4843e83b0ccab189d26a7f9625e0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/c1ae47a62deb4843e83b0ccab189d26a7f9625e0.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/c1ae47a62deb4843e83b0ccab189d26a7f9625e0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/c1ae47a62deb4843e83b0ccab189d26a7f9625e0-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US president Barack Obama landed on the tourist island Tahiti without his family for a month-long stay at a luxury resort, according to local TV channel Tahiti Nui TV (AFP Photo\/Brendan Smialowski)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"14\">Papeete (AFP) &#8211; Barack Obama arrived in French Polynesia where he will spend a month at a luxury resort frequented by Hollywood stars, according to local TV channel Tahiti Nui TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"15\">The former US president landed on the tourist island Tahiti without his family before going to Marlon Brando&#8217;s privately owned retreat Tetiaroa atoll, which the Oscar-winning actor bought in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"16\">Obama has checked into the eco-friendly Brando resort, whose villas boast their own plunge pools and cost between 2,000 euros ($2,150) and 12,300 euros per night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"17\">No political meetings have been announced during Obama&#8217;s stay and it is not clear what he plans to do during the sojourn or whether his family will join him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"18\">But the former leader of the free world and his wife Michelle have signed a bumper book deal with Penguin Random House estimated to be worth as much as $60 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"19\">French Polynesia, a French territory in the South Pacific, is made of more than 100 islands and is best known for the French nuclear tests carried out there up to the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"19\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/barack-obama-spend-month-french-polynesia-061430706.html\">http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/barack-obama-spend-month-french-polynesia-061430706.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}