{"id":501,"date":"2006-06-12T18:40:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T18:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2006\/06\/12\/saturday-in-kaduna\/"},"modified":"2006-06-12T18:40:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T18:40:52","slug":"saturday-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2006\/06\/12\/saturday-in-kaduna\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I joined a couple of busloads of my colleagues at the wedding of Bello from the exams department.  After a bit of a delay we missed the church part of the wedding but made it for the reception.  Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2005\/06\/14\/tayos-wedding\/\">Tayo&#8217;s wedding<\/a> it was a Yoruba affair, with lots of singing and dancing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Wedding10June06\/WeddingGroup_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Wedding10June06\/WeddingGroup_t.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding party standing in the car park in front of a church\" title=\"Some of the guests posing with the couple for photos\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards myself and Omoba from the computer centre went back to his place.  He lives near where the wedding was held, in Kaduna South, the mainly Christian and non-Hausa part of town.  The picture is him with three of his sisters, in the small business centre and computer training place he owns.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/OmobasPlace\/OmobaAndSisters1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/OmobasPlace\/OmobaAndSisters1_t.jpg\" alt=\"Omoba and three of his sisters\" title=\"Omoba and his sisters\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We moved on to Barnawa Complex, an area packed with bars and shops, to see another sister.  This sister owns a tailor&#8217;s shop and has just recently returned from almost ten years living in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I joined a couple of busloads of my colleagues at the wedding of Bello from the exams department. After a bit of a delay we missed the church part of the wedding but made it for the reception. Like Tayo&#8217;s wedding it was a Yoruba affair, with lots of singing and dancing. Afterwards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}