{"id":276563,"date":"2016-12-13T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=276563"},"modified":"2016-12-13T17:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:44:55","slug":"michelle-obama-ape-in-heels-facebook-post-woman-to-return-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/michelle-obama-ape-in-heels-facebook-post-woman-to-return-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama ‘ape in heels’ Facebook post: Woman ‘to return to work’"},"content":{"rendered":"
A woman suspended after calling First Lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” in a Facebook post is set to return to work in West Virginia, local media say.<\/p>\n
Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who runs a local non-profit group in Clay county, will resume work on 23 December, the Charleston Gazette-Mail said.<\/p>\n
The screen grab of the post was widely shared online.<\/p>\n
Local mayor Beverly Whaling resigned over the controversy, after she posted “Just made my day, Pam” to the comment.<\/p>\n
Funding risk<\/strong><\/p>\n The Gazette-Mail quoted a letter from the acting director of the non-profit group as saying Ms Taylor would resume work at the Clay County Development Corp on 23 December.<\/p>\n In her Facebook post, Ms Taylor had said: “It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified first lady in the White House. I’m tired of seeing a Ape in heels.”<\/p>\n A petition calling for Ms Taylor and Ms Whaling, the mayor of the town of Clay, to be sacked collected more than 85,000 signatures.<\/p>\n Clay town has a population of just 491 and has no African American residents, according to the 2010 census.<\/p>\n More than 98% of Clay County’s 9,000 residents are white.<\/p>\n The Clay County Development group, of which Ms Taylor is the director, is partly funded through state and federal grants, and the group provides services to elderly and low-income residents.<\/p>\n