{"id":3730,"date":"2023-07-19T13:33:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2023-07-19T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:33:24","slug":"mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3730","title":{"rendered":"Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just happened to notice that yesterday was Nelson Mandela\u2019s birthday. <br>He was the son of a Tembu tribal chieftain and was born on July 18, 1918 in South Africa. He became a lawyer and joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1964, he was convicted for sabotage as a result of his participation in the struggle against apartheid, and spent the next 28 years in jail. All that time, he remained a symbol of hope to South Africa\u2019s non-white majority. He was released from prison in 1990 and elected President of South Africa in 1994. It was the first election in which all races participated.<br>Happy (belated) Birthday Nelson!<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just happened to notice that yesterday was Nelson Mandela\u2019s birthday. He was the son of a Tembu tribal chieftain and was born on July 18, 1918 in South Africa. He became a lawyer and joined the African National Congress &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}