{"id":263,"date":"2012-10-01T15:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/?p=263"},"modified":"2012-10-01T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:39:17","slug":"time-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/01\/time-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Time in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to research the perception of time in Africa.\u00a0Time in Africa is much more relaxed than in busy, more western areas such a New York City.\u00a0Africa is said to have an &#8220;emotional time consciousness&#8221; \u00a0which contrasts with Western &#8220;mechanical time consciousness&#8221;.\u00a0African cultures follow a &#8220;polychronic&#8221; way of living,\u00a0which means people tend to manage more than one thing at a time rather than in a strict sequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to research the perception of time in Africa.\u00a0Time in Africa is much more relaxed than in busy, more western areas such a New York City.\u00a0Africa is said to have an &#8220;emotional time consciousness&#8221; \u00a0which contrasts with Western &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/01\/time-in-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}