{"id":14129,"date":"2016-06-01T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14129"},"modified":"2016-05-31T21:31:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:31:30","slug":"sierra-leones-first-traffic-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/sierra-leones-first-traffic-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone\u2019s First Traffic Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/060116_0129_SierraLeone1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Progress means different things for different countries writes The Economist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s been 14 years since Sierra Leone last had a traffic light.<\/li>\n<li>During the country&#8217;s civil war, the old ones were torn down and sold for scrap.<\/li>\n<li>Now, under direct orders from the President, one has been built at a busy cross-roads.<\/li>\n<li>It is, of course, entirely ignored by a population that has never had to abide by one before.<\/li>\n<li>The few times it even works that is. It seems to perpetually blink the amber bulb.<\/li>\n<li>And while the government promises to build more it&#8217;s possible that this one was only built as a one-off in order to appease the populace just before elections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/middle-east-and-africa\/21698672-after-years-war-progress-sorts-amber-recovery?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/middle-east-and-africa\/21698672-after-years-war-progress-sorts-amber-recovery?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress means different things for different countries writes The Economist: It&#8217;s been 14 years since Sierra Leone last had a traffic light. During the country&#8217;s civil war, the old ones were torn down and sold for scrap. Now, under direct orders from the President, one has been built at a busy cross-roads. It is, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/060116_0129_SierraLeone1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14132,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129\/revisions\/14132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}