{"id":1951,"date":"2009-01-13T18:42:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2009-01-13T18:55:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T07:55:34","slug":"mugabe-on-holiday-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=1951","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe on holiday in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is on a month-long <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/index.php\/world\/15843-mugabe-takes-a-holiday-in-malaysia-as-zimbabwe-crumbles\">holiday<\/a> in Malaysia. According to the news report, his wife has withdrawn about RM330,000.00 for the trip from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the couple owns a home in the country. I wonder where it is. Perhaps one reason why they&#8217;re here might be because the travel bans imposed on them by the EU and the USA are still in effect. I guess the Malaysian government doesn&#8217;t have a problem with them spending their poor country&#8217;s money here.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that Mugabe&#8217;s wife, Grace Mugabe, has often been a target of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/2143442.stm\">criticism<\/a> for her habit of going on expensive shopping sprees while most Zimbabweans are deprived of even the most basic necessities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is on a month-long holiday in Malaysia. According to the news report, his wife has withdrawn about RM330,000.00 for the trip from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the couple owns a home in the country. I wonder where it is. Perhaps one reason why they&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=1951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mugabe on holiday in Malaysia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[37,51],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-politics","tag-malaysia","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}