{"id":3011,"date":"2007-10-08T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T17:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2007-10-08T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T17:37:17","slug":"nigeria-asks-bill-gates-for-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nigeria-asks-bill-gates-for-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria asks Bill Gates for proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15097125&#038;ft=1&#038;f=3\">NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nigeria doesn&#8217;t let just anyone into the country. When <strong>Bill Gates<\/strong> applied for a visa, the Nigerian government wanted proof the billionaire wouldn&#8217;t overstay his welcome and become a burden on the country&#8217;s social services. The Microsoft chairman had to get a letter from his bank. The letter might have said that Gates is worth an estimated $59 billion. His visa was approved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You think? Listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15097125&#038;ft=1&#038;f=3\">story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR: Nigeria doesn&#8217;t let just anyone into the country. When Bill Gates applied for a visa, the Nigerian government wanted proof the billionaire wouldn&#8217;t overstay his welcome and become a burden on the country&#8217;s social services. The Microsoft chairman had to get a letter from his bank. The letter might have said that Gates &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nigeria-asks-bill-gates-for-proof\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigeria asks Bill Gates for proof<\/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":[15],"tags":[142,143,4648,144],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria","tag-bill-gates","tag-microsoft","tag-nigeria","tag-visa-59-billion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Mz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","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=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}