{"id":4,"date":"2016-09-16T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2016-12-04T03:46:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T10:46:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is a space for discussing various issues challenging democracy in Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Africa\u2019s current challenges with rule of law and democracy are not new to the continent but simply a case of history repeating itself. \u00a0Most of the articles posted here have been written by myself and try to explore and explain the myriad problems that Africa has faced in the past half-century, and faces still. It is an open forum for anyone seeking to understand how Africa came to be what it is today and what is to be done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is a space for discussing various issues challenging democracy in Africa. Africa\u2019s current challenges with rule of law and democracy are not new to the continent but simply a case of history repeating itself. \u00a0Most of the articles posted here have been written by myself and try to explore and explain the myriad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44234,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/govdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}