{"id":1456,"date":"2014-02-06T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2014-02-06T04:57:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:57:41","slug":"dna-reveals-super-mario-as-pias-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/dna-reveals-super-mario-as-pias-father\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Reveals Super Mario As Pia&#8217;s Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli has confirmed he is the father of Pia, the baby who was born on December 5 2012 from his former girlfriend Raffaella Fico.<\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester City striker, who had denied fathering the baby in the past revealed the information via tweeter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally the TRUTH : &#8211; ) &#8230; PIA &#8230; Sweet child of mine!!!\u00a0\u00a0 your Dad.\u201d Balotelli wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He had been waiting for a DNA test, having refused to have any contact with the child until he was entirely certain the baby was his.<\/p>\n<p>The pair fought via the media and struggled through lawyers to decide on when or how to complete the DNA tests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli has confirmed he is the father of Pia, the baby who was born on December 5 2012 from his former girlfriend Raffaella Fico. The former Manchester City striker, who had denied fathering the baby in the past revealed the information via tweeter. \u201cFinally the TRUTH : &#8211; ) &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,82],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}