{"id":187501,"date":"2024-12-30T01:06:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-yuletide-abuja-residents-defy-hardship-throng-recreational-centres\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T01:06:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:06:06","slug":"nigeria-yuletide-abuja-residents-defy-hardship-throng-recreational-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-yuletide-abuja-residents-defy-hardship-throng-recreational-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Yuletide &#8211; Abuja Residents Defy Hardship, Throng Recreational Centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;The country is hard, but I just have to do this for my family because the holiday is a very long one and my children are at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Parks, Gardens and other recreational centres in the<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/fcta.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Capital Territory<\/a><\/strong> (FCT) hosted large numbers of fun seekers in celebration of yuletide despite the perceived economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that fun seekers from different parts of the FCT on Boxing Day trooped to the popular Millennium Park, Central Park and others to celebrate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412280037.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The country is hard, but I just have to do this for my family because the holiday is a very long one and my children are at home.&#8221; Parks, Gardens and other recreational centres in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) hosted large numbers of fun seekers in celebration of yuletide despite the perceived economic downturn. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[347,258,256,11717,9135,27101,257,4687,393,35551,4288,254,30651,25621],"class_list":["post-187501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abuja","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-centres","tag-defy","tag-hardship","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-recreational","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-throng","tag-yuletide"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187501","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}