{"id":390,"date":"2011-06-20T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T10:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/father-s-day-should-be-more-than-issuing-gifts\/"},"modified":"2011-06-21T02:13:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:13:30","slug":"father-s-day-should-be-more-than-issuing-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/father-s-day-should-be-more-than-issuing-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Father\u2019s Day should be more than issuing gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Though in Rwanda Father\u2019s day is celebrated with a few, the day should serve as a wakeup call in appreciating male parenting as well as identifying some of the challenges the house heads encounter.}}<\/p>\n<p>The day which is celebrated worldwide highlights how valuable fatherhood is to the children and society in general. It is also marked by issuing of gifts to fathers as well as taking them out to dinners <\/p>\n<p>Jessica mbabazi, a student at Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) is among the few who honor this day. She attributed her happiness to the day since it coincided with her birth day.<\/p>\n<p>In this respect, she took her father for an average shopping at Nakumat Kigali\u2019s renowned supermarket. In the shopping process Mbabazi hardly kept her joy and would be seen encouraging other shoppers on the relevance of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prefer celebrating this day with my father since he has raised me to who I am now and on such a day I have to make sure that I\u2019m the first person to hug my dad and tell him how much I appreciate him, \u201cShe emphasizes.<\/p>\n<p>Innocent Mugabo,  a civil servant  explains that the day should also be celebrated by those whom their father\u2019s have passed away since by doing so one would be cherishing their memories which could serve as an inspiration to their lives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Though in Rwanda Father\u2019s day is celebrated with a few, the day should serve as a wakeup call in appreciating male parenting as well as identifying some of the challenges the house heads encounter.}} The day which is celebrated worldwide highlights how valuable fatherhood is to the children and society in general. It is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}