{"id":500,"date":"2006-05-29T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2006\/05\/29\/happy-democracy-day\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T08:44:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T08:44:03","slug":"happy-democracy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2006\/05\/29\/happy-democracy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Democracy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a public holiday, so Simon and I decided to visit the park.  It&#8217;s officially called General Hassan Usman Katsina park, but the gate you enter through is Gamji Gate (<em>Kofar Gamji<\/em> in Hausa) and some people call it Gamji park instead.<\/p>\n<p>The map at the entrance makes it look like the park is huge but once you get inside you realise it&#8217;s actually quite small and run down.  There&#8217;s a pool with some crocodiles, probably the only ones remaining in a town named for the crocodile river, and three scruffy ostriches.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/CrocodilePool_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/CrocodilePool_t.jpg\" alt=\"Stagnant-looking pool with a few small crocodiles and a large concrete ornament\" title=\"The crocodiles in their pond\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/Ostriches2_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/Ostriches2_t.jpg\" alt=\"Two ostriches behind a fence\" title=\"Ostriches at the park\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe park is down beside the river, so it&#8217;s quite pleasant.  There&#8217;s also an old suspension bridge that was originally built at Lord Lugard&#8217;s place in Zungeru and later moved to Kaduna, it&#8217;s slowly rusting away to nothing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/ViewFromPark2_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/ViewFromPark2_t.jpg\" alt=\"Trees, grass and a muddy river\" title=\"View from the park across the river\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/LugardBridge_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/LugardBridge_t.jpg\" alt=\"A metal suspension bridge, rusting through the green and white paint\" title=\"Lord Lugard's bridge, moved from his station in Zungeru\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards we walked round to the Sea Breeze bar, also down beside the river.  It&#8217;s a bit of an odd name, given that Kaduna is hundreds of miles from the sea, but it&#8217;s a nice place to spend an afternoon.  There&#8217;s a lovely view across the river, with the occasional fisherman floating by on his calabash.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/ViewFromSeaBreeze1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Park29May06\/ViewFromSeaBreeze1_t.jpg\" alt=\"Grass, trees and a muddy river\" title=\"View from the Sea Breeze bar\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a public holiday, so Simon and I decided to visit the park. It&#8217;s officially called General Hassan Usman Katsina park, but the gate you enter through is Gamji Gate (Kofar Gamji in Hausa) and some people call it Gamji park instead. The map at the entrance makes it look like the park is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}