{"id":18630,"date":"2015-11-20T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18630"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:45:25","slug":"a-30-mile-traffic-jam-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18630","title":{"rendered":"A 30-mile traffic jam in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my son and his family relocated to Kenya about three months ago, I have been more than usually interested in the history of, and news from, the country.<\/p>\n<p>So I was amazed to learn that more than 1,500 trucks are locked into\u00a0a traffic jam stretching for 50 km (30 miles) on the highway between Mombasa and Nairobi.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0You can learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-34867935\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next time, you&#8217;re delayed by a few minutes in a traffic jam, try to remember this story &#8211; and relax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my son and his family relocated to Kenya about three months ago, I have been more than usually interested in the history of, and news from, the country. So I was amazed to learn that more than 1,500 trucks are locked into\u00a0a traffic jam stretching for 50 km (30 miles) on the highway between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18634,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18630\/revisions\/18634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}