{"id":182724,"date":"2025-10-13T19:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=182724"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:59:08","slug":"the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=182724","title":{"rendered":"The art of silence for retired leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AS a concerned and long-standing member of the People\u2019s National Movement (PNM), I am puzzled and frustrated by Dr Keith Rowley\u2019s continued involvement in national affairs, despite his public retirement from active politics. What is his intention? Is this an attempt to destabilise Penny Beckles and have Stuart Young reinstated as leader? The few remaining<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/letters\/the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders\/article_79cd562a-a8be-44b1-9fa4-ba93d41f30ec.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS a concerned and long-standing member of the People\u2019s National Movement (PNM), I am puzzled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders.png",600,315,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders-300x158.png",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders.png",600,315,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders.png",600,315,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders.png",600,315,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders.png",600,315,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders.png",600,315,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders.png",600,315,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182724-the-art-of-silence-for-retired-leaders-590x315.png",590,315,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\/182724","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=182724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}