{"id":156,"date":"2011-01-26T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=156"},"modified":"2011-01-28T15:29:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:29:02","slug":"87-of-burkina-faso-cant-find-burkina-faso-on-a-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"87% of Burkina Faso can&#8217;t find Burkina Faso on a map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Ouagadougou) A recent study of resident of Burkina Faso can&#8217;t find their own country on a map. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We win,&#8221; said a local livestock farmer. &#8220;Take that dumb Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A large percentage of the country cannot read, so many of them had trouble even reading the survey questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think most of them just participated in the survey for the free Milky Way mini-bites,&#8221; remarked a Sorghum merchant.<\/p>\n<p>The results were also likely influenced by the current existent of the Mossi Kingdom and its court in the Burkina capital. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s Burkina Faso?&#8221; asked a woman when interviewed.  &#8220;Long live Mogho Naba.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Ouagadougou) A recent study of resident of Burkina Faso can&#8217;t find their own country on a map. &#8220;We win,&#8221; said a local livestock farmer. &#8220;Take that dumb Americans.&#8221; A large percentage of the country cannot read, so many of them had trouble even reading the survey questions. &#8220;I think most of them just participated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}