{"id":215495,"date":"2025-12-02T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-symbolism-of-the-apocalyptic-homecoming-sustained-cdc-setback-or-strategic-unity-party-december-6-comeback\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:29:54","slug":"liberia-symbolism-of-the-apocalyptic-homecoming-sustained-cdc-setback-or-strategic-unity-party-december-6-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-symbolism-of-the-apocalyptic-homecoming-sustained-cdc-setback-or-strategic-unity-party-december-6-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Symbolism of the Apocalyptic Homecoming &#8211; Sustained CDC Setback or Strategic Unity Party December 6 Comeback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><em>Thinking Thoughts<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">In my Thinking Thoughts last night, I had a rather rude awakening regarding the vicissitudes of the present political landscape in Liberia. I reflected on how Liberia&#8217;s political landscape continues to oscillate between symbolism and struggle, between the visible ruins of past administrations and the anticipated rise of new political chapters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"97\">Few events dramatize this ongoing tension more vividly than the spectacle surrounding the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020334.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>Thinking Thoughts In my Thinking Thoughts last night, I had a rather rude awakening regarding the vicissitudes of the present political landscape in Liberia. I reflected on how Liberia&#8217;s political landscape continues to oscillate between symbolism and struggle, between the visible ruins of past administrations and the anticipated rise of new political chapters. Few events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215496,"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":[258,256,53016,14113,9733,6939,7552,4712,1107,257,7024,8247,254,8007,7262,53015,4019],"class_list":["post-215495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apocalyptic","tag-cdc","tag-comeback","tag-december","tag-homecoming","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-party","tag-setback","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-sustained","tag-symbolism","tag-unity"],"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\/215495","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=215495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}