{"id":206382,"date":"2020-04-02T10:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206382"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:11:10","slug":"covid-19-anthony-joshua-loses-close-ones-to-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206382","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Anthony Joshua loses close ones to coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">World heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, has revealed that he has \u201clost close ones\u201d to coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua disclosed this via a clip on his YouTube channel on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWherever you are in the world I\u2019m just checking in personally for everyone to just say, I hope you were well I will keep it safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lost no one immediate to me. But I\u2019ve lost close ones from my boxing gym, close friends and friends of friends. And it gets serious when it starts coming closer to home,\u201d the 30-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua\u2019s title defence against IBF mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev scheduled for June, is set to be rescheduled due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to be out there right now doing the most on my dirt bikes, meeting up with my boys, sparring, going down to the boxing gym. Even a rebel like me is trying to follow some guidelines to do the right thing,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, has revealed that he has \u201clost close ones\u201d to coronavirus. Joshua disclosed this via a clip on his YouTube channel on Wednesday. \u201cWherever you are in the world I\u2019m just checking in personally for everyone to just say, I hope you were well I will keep it safe. \u201cI\u2019ve lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206383,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,897],"class_list":["post-206382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-anthony-joshua"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206382","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=206382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}