{"id":9224,"date":"2013-07-21T05:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/jackie-chan-to-visit-madagascar-for-martial-arts\/"},"modified":"2013-07-21T05:39:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T05:39:20","slug":"jackie-chan-to-visit-madagascar-for-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/jackie-chan-to-visit-madagascar-for-martial-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Chan to visit Madagascar for Martial arts Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan is expected in Madagascar for an upcoming martial arts competition.}}<\/p>\n<p>The 5th edition of the kung fu wushu African Cup takes place in Antananarivo on September 5-10.<\/p>\n<p>Six Shaolins from temples in China will also give shows at the competition, according to the Malagasy federation\u2019s head, Jos\u00e9 Ramaherison aka Master Gao.<\/p>\n<p>The global movie star Jackie Chan is a talented wushu fan.<\/p>\n<p>The visit of Mr Chan, an idol to millions of boys around the world, is highly anticipated on the island.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of Shaolin martial art rooted first on Malagasy soil in the 1990s and has recruited thousands of fans since.<\/p>\n<p>Madagascar has struggled to host the African Cup since 2009, according to Master Gao, a Chinese who teaches the martial discipline in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The dream will finally become true this year, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Wushu African Confederation including its secretary general, Tarek Kiralla, are currently in the capital to follow-up on preparations for the tournament.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3286 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rugby-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan is expected in Madagascar for an upcoming martial arts competition.}} The 5th edition of the kung fu wushu African Cup takes place in Antananarivo on September 5-10. Six Shaolins from temples in China will also give shows at the competition, according to the Malagasy federation\u2019s head, Jos\u00e9 Ramaherison aka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}