{"id":115,"date":"2006-12-21T17:21:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/21\/last-day-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T09:37:15","slug":"last-day-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/21\/last-day-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Last day in Nigeria (and fixing the fixed line&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s our last day. Yesterday we arrived in Abuja, after having stayed a few days in Jos for the second time. We are again in Daniel&#8217;s place, Esther&#8217;s cousin. His internet connection was broken 2 weeks ago because overzealous road workers dug a trench in his street and cut through the telephony cables. Esther and I decided to do it the African way. We jumped into the dust pit with gaffer tape and a leatherman and tried to fix the telephone line by tying all threads of the same color together. And it worked&#8230;! (written proof here).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/nigeria384.jpg\" alt=\"me fixing the telephone cables in Abuja\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s our last day. Yesterday we arrived in Abuja, after having stayed a few days in Jos for the second time. We are again [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/21\/last-day-in-nigeria\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,158,44],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nigeria","tag-locative-media","tag-nigeria","tag-nomadicmilk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/nigeria384-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-1R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}