{"id":21270,"date":"2022-05-02T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21270"},"modified":"2022-07-18T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:51:15","slug":"across-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/across-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e5e5e5&amp;d=4-27-2022_may22_flipbook_cropped_tpr&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=10&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Sick of bad news and countries always fighting each other? Here\u2019s the antidote.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Made in Malawi: Not just a dream.<br \/>\nLILONGWE, MALAWI<\/p>\n<p>Five days ago, <strong>Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, President of Malawi<\/strong>, was in Washington, D.C., meeting with <strong>U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken<\/strong>. Four days ago, he Tweeted: \u201cI have left #NewYork for #Malawi after a successful trip.\u201d Eight hours ago, he\u2019s in Malawi test driving a new electric motorcycle at the presidential palace. The verdict? \u201cI hosted a group of young engineers yesterday at <strong>Kamuzu Palace<\/strong> to appreciate and see for myself samples of electric motorcycles they are building locally with the support of foreign investors.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/from-editor-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"from-editor\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/from-editor-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/from-editor-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/from-editor-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/from-editor-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/from-editor-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/from-editor.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1202],"class_list":["post-21270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-may-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21642,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270\/revisions\/21642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}