{"id":560,"date":"2007-03-01T09:43:50","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T09:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/03\/01\/zaria\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T09:43:50","slug":"zaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/03\/01\/zaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marion and I popped up to Zaria on Sunday to see some of the VSOs who are at the Theatre for Development workshop up there.  A few of us then went into town for lunch and a stroll around the old city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Zaria\/Feb07\/EmirsPalace_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Zaria\/Feb07\/EmirsPalace_t.jpg\" alt=\"A gateway building with brightly-coloured patterns painted on it.\" title=\"The main entrance to the Emir's palace in Zaria\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Zaria\/Feb07\/HouseInOldCity1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Zaria\/Feb07\/HouseInOldCity1_t.jpg\" alt=\"A green and yellow house with bright patterns painted above the door.  A Mercedes is parked outside.\" title=\"A house in the old city in Zaria.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Zaria\/Feb07\/OldHousePetersPhotoStudio_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Zaria\/Feb07\/OldHousePetersPhotoStudio_t.jpg\" alt=\"A traditional Hausa house, painted white with a sign saying 'Peter's Photo Studio'\" title=\"A traditional house being used as a modern business.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The traditional houses in Zaria often seem to be brightly painted, the Emir&#8217;s palace (on the left) was the first of these we saw.  Strolling through the old city we came across several more in a similar style and also some traditional buildings with more modern uses.<\/p>\n<p>There would have been more pictures but my camera has developed an intermittent fault.  Sometimes it seems to be getting no signal from the image sensor, giving all-black pictures.  I&#8217;m hoping it lasts for my remaining time in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marion and I popped up to Zaria on Sunday to see some of the VSOs who are at the Theatre for Development workshop up there. A few of us then went into town for lunch and a stroll around the old city. The traditional houses in Zaria often seem to be brightly painted, the Emir&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-travel","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}