{"id":205779,"date":"2025-08-29T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-winger-boniface-muchiri-earns-military-promotion-after-chan-heroics\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:58:00","slug":"kenya-winger-boniface-muchiri-earns-military-promotion-after-chan-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-winger-boniface-muchiri-earns-military-promotion-after-chan-heroics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Winger Boniface Muchiri Earns Military Promotion After CHAN Heroics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Ulinzi Stars captain, who featured prominently for the Harambee Stars at the CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024, has risen from the rank of Senior Private to Corporal<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Kenya&#8217;s Boniface Muchiri has seen his brilliance on the football pitch matched with recognition in the barracks, after the winger was officially promoted in his military career with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mod.go.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenya Defence Forces<\/a><\/strong> (KDF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The Ulinzi Stars captain, who featured prominently for the Harambee Stars at the CAF African Nations&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508280276.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>The Ulinzi Stars captain, who featured prominently for the Harambee Stars at the CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024, has risen from the rank of Senior Private to Corporal Kenya&#8217;s Boniface Muchiri has seen his brilliance on the football pitch matched with recognition in the barracks, after the winger was officially promoted in his military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":205780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15522,11500,9994,45841,4688,430,3318,50413,257,18608,254,32091],"class_list":["post-205779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boniface","tag-chan","tag-earns","tag-heroics","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-military","tag-muchiri","tag-news","tag-promotion","tag-south-africa-today","tag-winger"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/205779","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=205779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}