{"id":34600,"date":"2021-07-31T05:42:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/women-have-not-been-able-hold-these-position-samoas-first-female-pm-gets-down-to-the-job"},"modified":"2021-07-31T05:42:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:42:44","slug":"women-have-not-been-able-hold-these-samoas-first-female-pm-gets-down-to-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34600","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Women have not been able hold these: Samoa\u2019s first female PM gets down to the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of political turmoil, following the country\u2019s most contentious election, Fiama Naomi Mata\u2019afa is ready to get to work<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister\u2019s office in Apia, the capital of Samoa, which overlooks the harbour, has just been vacated by the man who held the job for 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>The bookshelves are still empty, but the room is filled with bunches of flowers, sent by well-wishers keen to congratulate the new incumbent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/women-have-not-been-able-hold-these-position-samoas-first-female-pm-gets-down-to-the-job\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of political turmoil, following the country\u2019s most contentious election, Fiama Naomi Mata\u2019afa is ready to get to workThe prime minister\u2019s office in Apia, the capital of Samoa, which overlooks the harbour, has just been vacated by the man w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,936,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34601,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34600\/revisions\/34601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}