{"id":2278,"date":"2017-05-18T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2018-05-01T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:22:24","slug":"the-gambia-hospitality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/the-gambia-hospitality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gambia Hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2280\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2018\/02\/20170514_123401.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2018\/02\/20170514_123401-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"wp-image-2280 size-medium\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Beauty of The Gambia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2018\/02\/20170514_125434.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2018\/02\/20170514_125434-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Backary. He drives me to and from work every day. He is friendly to everyone, loves his family and country and is a devout Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>Backary\u00a0wanted to show me a piece of his country. So he picked me up Sunday to take me around a bit and then out to his home for dinner. So nice of him.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that this is a courting tree. If I saw this tree in Disneyland I would have thought they could have done a better job making it look real.<\/p>\n<p>There is a saying that GMT here stands for Gambia Maybe Time. This is not true with Backary. He is always early. I have learned to be ready by 8:30 for my 9 a.m. pick up. Backary also gives people he knows rides when he can. He will be one of my fondest memories of The Gambia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Backary. He drives me to and from work every day. He is friendly to everyone, loves his family and country and is a devout Muslim. Backary\u00a0wanted to show me a piece of his country. So he picked me up Sunday to take me around a bit and then out to his home for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/criminal-justice-legal-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}