{"id":217323,"date":"2016-05-26T17:19:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T17:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=217323"},"modified":"2016-05-26T17:19:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T17:19:46","slug":"prince-edward-visits-asantehene-plants-tree-in-rattary-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=217323","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward visits Asantehene, plants tree in Rattary Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, following his arrival in the country for the Head of State Awards, planted a tree in the Rattary Park, at Kumasi on Wednesday, May 25.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217330\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160525_153741.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160525_153741\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tree, a symbol of greenness, is to reiterate the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly&#8217;s efforts of re-greening the the city once known as the Garden City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217336\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160525_153929.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160525_153929\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prince Edward Anthony Richard Louis, the youngest of four children and the third son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh earlier paid a courtesy call at the Manhyia Palace where a rich Kente cloth was presented to him by His Royal Highness Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217334\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG-20160525-WA0016.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160525-WA0016\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Earl of Wessex at the Rattary Park took time to interact with Allen the paralytic rider and some school pupils.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217331\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160525_152658.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160525_152658\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In attendance were Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpute; Minister of Youth and Sports Jon Benjamin; British High Commissioner, Henry Morgan Minski; Head of State Awards Board Chair, Alexander Ackon; the Ashanti Regional Minister, \u00a0Kojo Bonsu; Major of Kumasi and other dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217333\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG-20160525-WA0017.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160525-WA0017\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 Lauretta Timah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, following his arrival in the country for the Head of State Awards, planted a tree in the Rattary Park, at Kumasi on Wednesday, May 25. The tree, a symbol of greenness, is to reiterate the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly&#8217;s efforts of re-greening the the city once known as the Garden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":217335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}