{"id":1271915,"date":"2022-12-31T01:35:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T01:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/pele-in-africa-the-man-the-myth-the-legend\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T01:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T01:35:32","slug":"pele-in-africa-the-man-the-myth-the-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/pele-in-africa-the-man-the-myth-the-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Pele in Africa: The man, the myth, the legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/_128163726_669feeea-66c1-4475-a820-688be2453ac5.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">\u201cBut the Nigerians certainly made sure the Biafrans wouldn\u2019t invade Lagos while we were there,\u201d he said, recalling a huge military presence. There was never much of a chance of that happening though, as the Biafran separatists were at least 500km (310 miles) away and being pushed back by the army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut the Nigerians certainly made sure the Biafrans wouldn\u2019t invade Lagos while we were there,\u201d he said, recalling a huge military presence. There was never much of a chance of that happening though, as the Biafran separatists were at least 500km (310 miles) away and being pushed back by the army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}