{"id":16153,"date":"2018-10-18T03:51:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T00:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=16153"},"modified":"2018-10-18T03:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T00:53:03","slug":"ugandans-enjoy-their-first-walk-run-on-the-new-source-of-the-nile-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/ugandans-enjoy-their-first-walk-run-on-the-new-source-of-the-nile-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandans Enjoy their First Walk\/ Run on the New Source of the Nile Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people that were in Jinja at the time the bridge was commissioned by the president are one of the lucky few. They enjoyed their first run\/ walk on the wonderful marvel. This bridge that runs across the source of the Nile was named, <em>&#8220;the source of the Nile Bridge&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16156\" style=\"width: 692px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/FB_IMG_1539788715374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/FB_IMG_1539788715374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/FB_IMG_1539788715374.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/FB_IMG_1539788715374-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bridge as seen from afar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the fifth longest bridge in the world, and the second marvel commissioned this year in the regime of the president.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ugandans officially embrace the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SourceofTheNileBridge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SourceofTheNileBridge<\/a> .First walk!First run! To miles of smiles. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p9AsOQBxpr\">pic.twitter.com\/p9AsOQBxpr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UNRA_UGANDA (@UNRA_UG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNRA_UG\/status\/1052561179481186304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A few months back, the Entebbe Expressway that connects Entebbe to the capital through the Northern By pass was released to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some photos of the bridge.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16155\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/Dpu3ToVWwAApEJI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/Dpu3ToVWwAApEJI-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/Dpu3ToVWwAApEJI-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/Dpu3ToVWwAApEJI-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/Dpu3ToVWwAApEJI-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/Dpu3ToVWwAApEJI.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lighting is beautiful<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16157\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181017_192858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181017_192858-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181017_192858-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181017_192858-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181017_192858-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181017_192858.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ugandans take over the bridge to look at the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people that were in Jinja at the time the bridge was commissioned by the president are one of the lucky few. They enjoyed their first run\/ walk on the wonderful marvel. This bridge that runs across the source of the Nile was named, &#8220;the source of the Nile Bridge&#8221; This is the fifth longest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":16158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11561],"class_list":["post-16153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-source-of-the-nile-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16161,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153\/revisions\/16161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}