{"id":5578,"date":"2013-02-02T03:05:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T03:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gambia-introduces-4-day-week\/"},"modified":"2013-02-02T03:05:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T03:05:13","slug":"gambia-introduces-4-day-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gambia-introduces-4-day-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia Introduces 4-day Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Gambia has started a four-day week for public sector workers, with Fridays now an extra day off.}}<\/p>\n<p>President Yahya Jammeh has said the shorter week will give The Gambia&#8217;s mainly Muslim population more time to pray, socialise and tend to fields.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jammeh, who took power in a bloodless coup in 1994, is known for his eccentric behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say his latest decision will promote laziness and disrupt the poor West African state&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture, especially peanut exports, forms the backbone of The Gambia&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a popular tourist destination, because of its beaches.<\/p>\n<p>{wirestory}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Gambia has started a four-day week for public sector workers, with Fridays now an extra day off.}} President Yahya Jammeh has said the shorter week will give The Gambia&#8217;s mainly Muslim population more time to pray, socialise and tend to fields. Mr Jammeh, who took power in a bloodless coup in 1994, is known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578","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=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}