{"id":212428,"date":"2025-11-03T20:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-it-is-good-to-get-married-ruto-rallies-youth-to-wed-stop-wasting-peoples-time\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:45:39","slug":"kenya-it-is-good-to-get-married-ruto-rallies-youth-to-wed-stop-wasting-peoples-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-it-is-good-to-get-married-ruto-rallies-youth-to-wed-stop-wasting-peoples-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;It Is Good to Get Married&#8217; &#8211; Ruto Rallies Youth to Wed, &#8216;Stop Wasting People&#8217;s Time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has urged the youth to rethink their attitudes toward relationships, warning that the modern trend of avoiding commitment in favour of a &#8220;fashionable lifestyle&#8221; is misleading and destructive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Speaking during a pre-wedding ceremony of Senator Allan Kiprotich Chesang and Jepkorir Kittony in Trans Nzoia County on Saturday, the President challenged the youth to value marriage, responsibility, and long-term commitment over casual relationships driven by social&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511030716.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has urged the youth to rethink their attitudes toward relationships, warning that the modern trend of avoiding commitment in favour of a &#8220;fashionable lifestyle&#8221; is misleading and destructive. Speaking during a pre-wedding ceremony of Senator Allan Kiprotich Chesang and Jepkorir Kittony in Trans Nzoia County on Saturday, the President challenged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":212429,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,6677,4688,430,8603,257,8649,11878,11238,254,8652,6599,38329,18400,6276],"class_list":["post-212428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-good","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-married","tag-news","tag-peoples","tag-rallies","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop","tag-time","tag-wasting","tag-wed","tag-youth"],"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\/212428","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}