{"id":208540,"date":"2025-09-30T00:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-president-weah-recounts-close-call-says-wife-forewarned-family-wouldnt-sleep-on-9th-street\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:07:29","slug":"liberia-ex-president-weah-recounts-close-call-says-wife-forewarned-family-wouldnt-sleep-on-9th-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-president-weah-recounts-close-call-says-wife-forewarned-family-wouldnt-sleep-on-9th-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ex-President Weah Recounts Close Call, Says Wife Forewarned Family Wouldn&#8217;t Sleep On 9th Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Paynesville \u2014 Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has broken his silence on the recent fire at his 9th Street residence in Monrovia, crediting his wife, Clar Marie Weah, for a decision that may have saved their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Speaking on Sunday, September 28, during a service at the Forky Klon Jlaleh Family Fellowship Church, Mr. Weah expressed gratitude to God for what he described as divine protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">&#8220;After I got home, my wife told me, &#8216;We will sleep in Rehab tonight; we will not sleep on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509290456.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>Paynesville \u2014 Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has broken his silence on the recent fire at his 9th Street residence in Monrovia, crediting his wife, Clar Marie Weah, for a decision that may have saved their lives. Speaking on Sunday, September 28, during a service at the Forky Klon Jlaleh Family Fellowship Church, Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[19612,258,256,6880,6748,12175,5203,52454,4712,1107,257,7218,16906,254,7714,12734,8963,44782],"class_list":["post-208540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-9th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-close","tag-expresident","tag-family","tag-forewarned","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-recounts","tag-sleep","tag-south-africa-today","tag-street","tag-weah","tag-wife","tag-wouldnt"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/208540","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=208540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}