{"id":93253,"date":"2026-08-23T06:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93253"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:41:52","slug":"did-a-goat-herders-lucky-200-nugget-spark-a-gold-rush-in-western-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/did-a-goat-herders-lucky-200-nugget-spark-a-gold-rush-in-western-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a goat herder&#8217;s lucky $200 nugget spark a gold rush in western Kenya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/3d5e3c6c32ba6a3eb6d5c316fad164429f56f5d470c449ae98c34b777a9edd7c\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w976_h549%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fbbc_us_articles_995%2F05fcf488598338b35aa0b9f6a24074eb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A goat herder from a remote area of western Kenya has told the BBC his discovery of a golden nugget has sparked a gold rush, overwhelming his small village over the last few weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyjmnvdr95o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 A goat herder from a remote area of western Kenya has told the BBC his discovery of a golden nugget has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manasse-Lomachar.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93255,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93253\/revisions\/93255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}