{"id":94905,"date":"2019-08-17T17:16:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/this-nigerian-boy-is-only-9-years-old-and-has-already-built-over-30-mobile-games"},"modified":"2019-08-17T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:16:56","slug":"this-nigerian-boy-is-only-9-years-old-and-has-already-built-over-30-mobile-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/this-nigerian-boy-is-only-9-years-old-and-has-already-built-over-30-mobile-games","title":{"rendered":"This Nigerian boy is only 9 years old and has already built over 30 mobile games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-nigerian-boy-is-only-9-years-old-and-has-already-built-over-30-mobile-games.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, at just 9 years-old, Okpara, from Lagos, Nigeria, has built over 30 mobile games, according to a report by the CNN.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cYou are always playing games; can\u2019t you think about building your own games so others can play yours too?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those were the words of Basil Okpara Sr when he scolded his son, Basil Okpara Jr for spending too much time playing games.<\/p>\n<p>Okpara Sr was angry when he uttered those words, but little did he know that his son, who was then only 7, would take his words seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, at just 9 years-old, Okpara, from Lagos, Nigeria, has built over 30 mobile games, according to a report by the CNN. \u201cYou are always playing games; can\u2019t you think about building your own games so others can play yours too?\u201d Those were the words of Basil Okpara Sr when he scolded his son, Basil [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}