{"id":39369,"date":"2021-08-01T19:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T19:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39369"},"modified":"2021-08-01T19:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T19:26:58","slug":"you-can-be-african-and-black-and-play-polo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39369","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You can be African and black and play polo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Molawa Adesuyi has been playing polo competitively in the UK since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He&#8217;s calling for more young people from ethnic minority backgrounds to take up his sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC spoke to him as he took part in Lux Afrique Polo Day in Surrey \u2013 an annual event that brings together African food, music and fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporter: Adina Campbell<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Producer: Anthea Lee<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed and edited by: Julius Peacock<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-58049010\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molawa Adesuyi has been playing polo competitively in the UK since 2015. He&#8217;s calling for more young people from ethnic minority backgrounds to take up his sport. The BBC spoke to him as he took part in Lux Afrique Polo Day in Surrey \u2013 an annual event that brings together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119696231_p09r23nz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}