{"article":{"id":228886,"heading":"Obama, Ghana, and African oil","author":"Ann Garrison","created":"2009-07-11 21:32:50","modified":"2009-07-11 21:32:50","last_modified":"Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:32:50","article":"<p>Cross post from Examiner.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Obama-Ghana-and-African-Oil\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Obama-Ghana-and-African-Oil<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Obama-Ghana-and-African-Oil","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","summary":"Barack Obama's visit to Ghana is, most fundamentally, about West African oil and natural gas, and control of the corridors for transporting it through the Gulf of Guinea, on the West African Coast.  ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gulf_of_guinea.gif","filesize":"13.9 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2009\/07\/228886.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gulf_of_guinea.gif"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}