{"id":2743,"date":"2010-06-11T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2010-06-11T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:52:07","slug":"a-taste-of-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"A taste of Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later today, the greatest sporting event on the globe opens when the World Cup 2010 commences with a ceremony in South Africa&#8217;s Johannesburg. It is the first time that the event has been held in Africa and there are some real security fears.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of a tour of Southern Africa, I once spent a day in Johannesburg and it was the only time that I have seen a dead body in the street. You can read my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthernAfrica.html#Joberg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later today, the greatest sporting event on the globe opens when the World Cup 2010 commences with a ceremony in South Africa&#8217;s Johannesburg. It is the first time that the event has been held in Africa and there are some real security fears. At the start of a tour of Southern Africa, I once spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}