{"id":177452,"date":"2024-07-28T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-team-kenya-showcases-its-glamour-to-the-world-as-rainy-colourful-opening-ceremony-lights-up-paris-olympics\/"},"modified":"2024-07-28T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T17:37:15","slug":"africa-team-kenya-showcases-its-glamour-to-the-world-as-rainy-colourful-opening-ceremony-lights-up-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-team-kenya-showcases-its-glamour-to-the-world-as-rainy-colourful-opening-ceremony-lights-up-paris-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Team Kenya Showcases Its Glamour to the World As Rainy Colourful Opening Ceremony Lights Up Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Paris, France \u2014 <em>Team Kenya athletes led by flag-bearers Ferdinand Omanyala and Triza Atuka were bouncing off the walls in the French Capital in what will perhaps go down in the folklore as the most picturesque Olympic Games&#8217; Opening Ceremony ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Kenyans were among the more than 10,000 athletes who sailed across the river in a unique 3.5-mile parade Friday, officially starting the 2024 Paris Games with zest and vigour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Unlike other editions when participating nations have matched past the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407270014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, France \u2014 Team Kenya athletes led by flag-bearers Ferdinand Omanyala and Triza Atuka were bouncing off the walls in the French Capital in what will perhaps go down in the folklore as the most picturesque Olympic Games&#8217; Opening Ceremony ever. The Kenyans were among the more than 10,000 athletes who sailed across the river [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651287:44e5ec89a96a59d22bf3b54ebb11b9ea:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6358,49167,49166,4688,430,13546,257,12022,11416,15620,11233,14517,254,7142,5093],"class_list":["post-177452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ceremony","tag-colourful","tag-glamour","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lights","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-opening","tag-paris","tag-rainy","tag-showcases","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651287:44e5ec89a96a59d22bf3b54ebb11b9ea:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}