{"id":2582,"date":"2007-06-29T05:25:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T11:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2007-06-29T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T11:25:23","slug":"ireland-elects-nigerian-refugee-as-first-black-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ireland-elects-nigerian-refugee-as-first-black-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland elects Nigerian refugee as first black Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian man who arrived in Ireland as an asylum seeker seven years ago has become the country&#8217;s first black mayor.<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/6251094.stm\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rotimi Adebari has been elected as first citizen of Portlaoise in County Laois.<br \/>\nThe 43-year-old fled from Nigeria in 2000 because of religious persecution. After a few weeks, he and his family settled in the County Laois town.<br \/>\nIn 2004, he was elected in the local elections as an independent councillor and on Thursday he became mayor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awesome. Congratulations! Think he&#8217;s regretting his decision to move?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian man who arrived in Ireland as an asylum seeker seven years ago has become the country&#8217;s first black mayor. From the BBC: Rotimi Adebari has been elected as first citizen of Portlaoise in County Laois. The 43-year-old fled from Nigeria in 2000 because of religious persecution. After a few weeks, he and his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ireland-elects-nigerian-refugee-as-first-black-mayor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ireland elects Nigerian refugee as first black Mayor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsandpop","category-nigeria","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-FE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}