{"id":143751,"date":"2019-08-15T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=143751"},"modified":"2019-08-15T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:52:19","slug":"fans-want-dj-arafats-funeral-held-inside-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=143751","title":{"rendered":"Fans Want DJ Arafat&#8217;s Funeral Held Inside Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Fans-Want-DJ-Arafats-Funeral-Held-Inside-Stadium.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of heartbroken fans of late Ivory Coast musician, DJ Arafat, have signed an online petition asking the country\u2019s Ministry of Culture to use their biggest stadium to hold his funeral service.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old artistes died on Monday morning after a motorbike accident in Abidjan, the country\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Originally known as Ange Didier Huon, DJ Arafat was famous for his energetic dance steps and scintillating brand of coup\u00e9-d\u00e9cal\u00e9 sound that left fans begging for more.<\/p>\n<p>Over 65,000 people have signed the petition on change.org asking for the F\u00e9lix Houphouet Boigny Stadium to be used for the funeral, according to a BBC report on Wednesday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of heartbroken fans of late Ivory Coast musician, DJ Arafat, have signed an online petition asking the country\u2019s Ministry of Culture to use their biggest stadium to hold his funeral service. The 33-year-old artistes died on Monday morning after a motorbike accident in Abidjan, the country\u2019s capital. Originally known as Ange Didier Huon, DJ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[12969],"class_list":["post-143751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-dj-arafat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}