{"id":662,"date":"2008-04-10T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2008\/04\/10\/scavengers-in-kano\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:50:42","slug":"scavengers-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2008\/04\/10\/scavengers-in-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"Scavengers in Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a good &#8220;In pictures&#8221; story on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/shared\/spl\/hi\/picture_gallery\/08\/africa_nigeria0s_rubbish_scavengers\/html\/1.stm\">children scavenging the rubbish heaps of Kano<\/a>.  Andrew Walker has been busy recently, producing some good varied Nigerian coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The lake he mentions is this one:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kano\/Durbar2005\/SunsetOverKano1_w.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kano\/Durbar2005\/SunsetOverKano1_t.JPG\" title=\"Sunset over Kano's old city\" alt=\"The sun sets behind an ancient city, reflected in a lake.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nit looks much nicer at sunset!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;m still intending to post some pictures of my apartment in Sweden and things like that.  I just haven&#8217;t got round to it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a good &#8220;In pictures&#8221; story on children scavenging the rubbish heaps of Kano. Andrew Walker has been busy recently, producing some good varied Nigerian coverage. The lake he mentions is this one: it looks much nicer at sunset! By the way, I&#8217;m still intending to post some pictures of my apartment in [&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-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}