{"id":45344,"date":"2014-07-28T15:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/al-qaeda-linked_attacks_crush_kenyas_coastal_tourism_industry\/"},"modified":"2014-07-28T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:15:48","slug":"al-qaeda-linked_attacks_crush_kenyas_coastal_tourism_industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45344","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda-Linked Attacks Crush Kenya\u2019s Coastal Tourism Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Robert Mutuku hangs \u201cOut of Africa\u201d\u009d T-shirts in his craft shop in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, he worries that the scarcity of tourists because of Islamist-militant attacks may doom his chances of keeping his five children in school.<\/p>\n<p>Mutuku, 47, has had to fire three people who made souvenirs at his workshop for the tourists who once crowded the alleys of the city\u2019s Old Town to savor its spice aromas and admire its Portuguese and Islamic architecture. Now Mutuku is certain he won\u2019t be able to fulfill the dream of his eldest daughter, Catherine Ndinya, 21, to attend college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have spent three days without selling anything,\u201d\u009d Mutuku said in a July 25 interview. \u201cI already took a bank loan to send the others back to school this term. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019ll do next term.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-07-27\/al-qaeda-linked-attacks-crush-kenya-s-coastal-tourism-industry.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Robert Mutuku hangs \u201cOut of Africa\u201d\u009d T-shirts in his craft shop in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, he worries that the scarcity of tourists because of Islamist-militant attacks may doom his chances of keeping his five children in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45344\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,582,589,149,168,329,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-kenya","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}