{"id":172346,"date":"2025-08-30T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=172346"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:16:10","slug":"the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=172346","title":{"rendered":"The politics of the belly: Why poverty fuels, not suppresses, political engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impoverished communities have a complicated relationship with political engagement, which is vital for their survival&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/thought-leader\/opinion\/2025-08-08-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impoverished communities have a complicated relationship with political engagement, which is vital for their survival&#8230;Read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement.jpeg",1000,640,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement-300x192.jpeg",300,192,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement-768x492.jpeg",640,410,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement.jpeg",640,410,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement.jpeg",1000,640,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement.jpeg",1000,640,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement.jpeg",1000,640,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172346-the-politics-of-the-belly-why-poverty-fuels-not-suppresses-political-engagement-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}