{"id":24526,"date":"2018-08-31T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T15:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=24526"},"modified":"2018-09-03T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:56:03","slug":"essien-mark","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/essien-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSIEN, Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Mark Essien is a Software Developer and Enterpreneur. He is the Founder of Hotels.ng (one of the first and most successful online hotel booking websites in Nigeria). Mr. Essien also built a file sharing software called Gnumm (acquired by Snoopstar.com), followed by a language learning startup called Ingolingo. Mr. Essien is a frequent speaker on TEDX where he delivers talks on Leveraging networks to build a business, and how Africa can lead in the global technology space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":24527,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2407,209],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-24526","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-it","category-business-person"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/24526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/24526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24526"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=24526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}