{"id":1863,"date":"2010-05-04T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:05:51","slug":"balls-eye-view-of-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/balls-eye-view-of-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball&#8217;s Eye View of Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Another day, another DHL cargo flight &#8212; this time a short hop lasting just 30 minutes from Benin to Lagos, Nigeria.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_1862\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1862 size-full\" title=\"Captain's Ball\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03755.jpg\" alt=\"Captain's Ball\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03755.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03755-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03755-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03755-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03755-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03755-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captain&#8217;s Ball on board the flight<\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_1864\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03761.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1864 size-full\" title=\"Landing in Lagos\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03761.jpg\" alt=\"Landing in Lagos\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03761.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03761-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03761-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03761-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03761-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03761-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ball&#8217;s eye view from the cockpit, coming in to land in Lagos.<\/small><\/div>\n<p><em>The Ball and Andrew arrive in Lagos. Nigeria is the 20th country en route to Johannesburg. What awaits them in Nigeria? Andrew is slighty worried as Nigeria has been in the news recently for the kidnapping of foreign nationals. The Ball is relaxed as ever.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another DHL cargo flight &#8212; this time a short hop lasting just 30 minutes from Benin to Lagos, Nigeria. The Ball and Andrew arrive in Lagos. Nigeria is the 20th country en route to Johannesburg. What awaits them in Nigeria? Andrew is slighty worried as Nigeria has been in the news recently for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,18,232],"tags":[59,137,109,48,90],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nigeria-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-lagos","tag-nigeria","tag-peril","tag-travel"],"geo":{"latitude":6.453055400000000219051798922009766101837158203125,"longitude":3.395833300000000054552629080717451870441436767578125,"description":"Lagos, Nigeria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/nig_DSC03761.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}