{"id":2986,"date":"2014-11-11T07:27:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2014-11-11T07:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:27:57","slug":"photos-from-blessing-okagbare-nigerian-sprint-queens-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"Photos from Blessing Okagbare Nigerian Sprint Queens&#8217; Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okagbere.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2987\" alt=\"okagbere\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okagbere.png\" width=\"185\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wedding took place on the 8th of November at St Patrick Catholic Church in Sapele, Delta state. Congrats to Blessing and Jude.<br \/>\nIn an interview after the wedding with Us, she assured her fans that her marriage won\u2019t detract her from athletics.<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cGetting married won\u2019t in any way stop me from doing the usual things on the track,\u201d<\/b> said Okagbare.<b> \u201cI have been looking forward to this moment and by the Grace of God, we will celebrate it with everything.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBut one thing I want to assure my fans and all Nigerians is that I will continue to work hard to put smiles on their faces as long as my body allows me to run and jump on the track.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s alot of work to be done and I have started training well ahead. I will return to the track soon after my wedding and I pray God to continue to guide me and my husband as we commence the journey of our married life,\u201d she added.<br \/>\nThe Nigerian track star described her husband as \u201cnice and God fearing and those are some basic things I prayed for in a man\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cHe is kind and that is a great thing for me because he supports my life, my career and my aspirations,\u201d <\/b>Okagbare added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wedding took place on the 8th of November at St Patrick Catholic Church in Sapele, Delta state. Congrats to Blessing and Jude. In an interview after the wedding with Us, she assured her fans that her marriage won\u2019t detract her from athletics. \u201cGetting married won\u2019t in any way stop me from doing the usual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/okagbere.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Ma","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}