{"id":4838,"date":"2014-08-16T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T08:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2014-08-16T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T08:42:38","slug":"ebola-u-s-orders-embassy-families-out-of-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/ebola-u-s-orders-embassy-families-out-of-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola: U.S. orders embassy families out of Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Thursday told the families of its diplomats in Sierra Leone to leave the country to avoid exposure to the deadly Ebola epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The embassy recommended this step out of an abundance of caution,&#8221; State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said, citing &#8220;a lack of options for routine health care services at major medical facilities due to the Ebola outbreak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harf said that the State Department was also &#8220;reconfiguring&#8221; its staff at the embassy in Freetown to &#8220;be more responsive&#8221; to the crisis ravaging the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sierra Leone News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ebola-us-orders-embassy-families-sierra-leone-170656482.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Thursday told the families of its diplomats in Sierra Leone to leave the country to avoid exposure to the deadly Ebola epidemic. &#8220;The embassy recommended this step out of an abundance of caution,&#8221; State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said, citing &#8220;a lack of options for routine health care services at major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,1111,1119,1443,1359,257,4714,1135,254,678,4692],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-epidemic","tag-ebola-outbreak","tag-freetown","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united-states","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}