{"id":10154,"date":"2014-04-07T11:33:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=10154"},"modified":"2014-04-15T13:31:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T13:31:33","slug":"iconic-nigerian-photographer-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2014\/04\/iconic-nigerian-photographer-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Nigerian photographer remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">February saw the passing of J. D. &#8216;Okhai Ojeikere, a Nigerian photographer best-known for a series of photographs depicting Nigerian hairstyles. With a prestigious career spanning more than 60 years, Ojeikere &#8211; who died at the age of 83 &#8211; was able to document the construction of some of Lagos&#8217; most iconic buildings. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">His collection includes several photos of ant hills, which he referred to as &#8216;the first skyscrapers&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February saw the passing of J. D. &#8216;Okhai Ojeikere, a Nigerian photographer best-known for a series of photographs depicting Nigerian hairstyles. With a prestigious career spanning more than 60 years, Ojeikere &#8211; who died at the age of 83 &#8211; was able to document the construction of some of Lagos&#8217; most iconic buildings. His collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[175,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10156,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions\/10156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}