{"id":12325,"date":"2011-09-27T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12325"},"modified":"2011-09-27T10:28:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T14:28:26","slug":"shakira-and-roger-waters-buy-island-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/shakira-and-roger-waters-buy-island-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Shakira and Roger Waters Buy Island in The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12326\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12326 \" title=\"shakira\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/shakira-250x140.jpg\" alt=\"Bahamian resident Shakira\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/shakira-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/shakira-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/shakira.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shakira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colombian pop star Shakira,29, and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, 63,  have collaborated to buy and build up a 700 acre island in the Bahamans  called &#8216;Bonds Cay&#8217;. The island cost $16 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 700 acre  island is situated north of the Bahamas and 125 miles from Florida. It  has five beaches and three bays as well as numerous waterfalls and rocky  areas.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a boutique hotel, luxury condominiums and homes with private beaches, the island will house an artists&#8217; retreat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12329\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12329\" title=\"bonds-cay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bonds-cay-250x138.jpg\" alt=\"bonds cay bahamas\" width=\"250\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bonds-cay-250x138.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bonds-cay-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bonds-cay.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bond&#39;s Cay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There  will be a rotating cast of artists-in-residence, galleries populated  with up-and-comers&#8217; works and a program that offers semester-long  sabbaticals.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish singers Alejandro Sanz and Miguel Bose  have acquired land on the new island, and are expected to build mansions  there next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 700 acre island called &#8216;Bonds Cay&#8217; is situated north of the Bahamas and 125 miles from Florida. It has five beaches and three bays as well as numerous waterfalls and rocky areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,59,22],"class_list":["post-12325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-celebrities","tag-islands","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}