{"id":44836,"date":"2017-04-21T08:55:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T06:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=44836"},"modified":"2017-04-21T08:55:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T06:55:45","slug":"queens-baton-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/04\/21\/queens-baton-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s baton in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Thursday welcomed the Queen\u2019s Baton as it makes its way to Australia\u2019s Gold Coast City, the venue of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>President, Peter Mutharika, received the baton at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on its arrival from Mauritius.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to urge all athletes to start preparations for the Games so that we can win medals at the Commonwealth Games next year,\u201d Mutharika said after receiving the baton.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika handed the baton over to netballer, Takondwa Lwazi, before it made its way to Lilongwe\u2019s Civic Offices where the city\u2019s Mayor, Desmond Bikoko, received it.<\/p>\n<p>The baton was then taken to Salima\u2019s Livingstonia Beach Hotel for traditional dances and sporting activities before leaving for Zambia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The baton has been to 10 other Commonwealth countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Thursday welcomed the Queen\u2019s Baton as it makes its way to Australia\u2019s Gold Coast City, the venue of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. President, Peter Mutharika, received the baton at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on its arrival from Mauritius. \u201cI would like to urge all athletes to start preparations for the Games so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44842,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44836\/revisions\/44842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}