{"id":1831,"date":"2010-02-11T11:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2010-02-11T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:23:25","slug":"mandelas-20-years-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"Mandela&#8217;s 20 years of freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many people all around the world, today I celebrate<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/8509785.stm\"> the news<\/a> of the 20th anniversary of the release from prison of Nelson Mandela after 27 years.\u00a0 It was such a moving occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I have visited South Africa and went to Robben Island where Mandela was imprisoned [my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthernAfrica.html\">here<\/a>] and where I bought his biography &#8220;Long Walk To Freedom&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/biographies.html#LWTF\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many people all around the world, today I celebrate the news of the 20th anniversary of the release from prison of Nelson Mandela after 27 years.\u00a0 It was such a moving occasion. Since then, I have visited South Africa and went to Robben Island where Mandela was imprisoned [my account here] and where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}