{"id":177373,"date":"2024-07-27T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-u-s-envoy-walks-out-of-26-oration-over-orators-divisive-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T07:15:14","slug":"liberia-u-s-envoy-walks-out-of-26-oration-over-orators-divisive-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-u-s-envoy-walks-out-of-26-oration-over-orators-divisive-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: U.S. Envoy Walks Out of &#8217;26 Oration Over Orator&#8217;s &#8216;Divisive Rhetoric&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Monrovia \u2014 In an unprecedented move, American representatives have walked out of ceremony marking Liberia&#8217;s 177th Independence Day celebration in protest of the national&#8217;s orator&#8217;s &#8220;provocative&#8221; statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In her 177th Independence Day Oration, Dr. Robtel Neajai Pailey. said the United States has taken so much from Liberia than it has given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Dr. Pailey&#8217;s said, &#8220;Truth be told, the United States of America has taken more from us than we have received. Liberia is nobody&#8217;s stepchild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">She also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407260599.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 In an unprecedented move, American representatives have walked out of ceremony marking Liberia&#8217;s 177th Independence Day celebration in protest of the national&#8217;s orator&#8217;s &#8220;provocative&#8221; statement. In her 177th Independence Day Oration, Dr. Robtel Neajai Pailey. said the United States has taken so much from Liberia than it has given. Dr. Pailey&#8217;s said, &#8220;Truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8712,5882,4712,1107,257,49160,49161,18382,254,2282,15792],"class_list":["post-177373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-divisive","tag-envoy","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-oration","tag-orators","tag-rhetoric","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-walks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}