{"id":23303,"date":"2018-07-18T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T07:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23303"},"modified":"2018-07-19T22:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T21:49:32","slug":"commemorating-the-centenary-of-the-birth-of-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23303","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela was born 100 years ago today on 18 July 1918 in the village of Mvezo in Umtata, then part of South Africa&#8217;s Cape Province. So today is a good time to remember this remarkable man and his wonderful achievements.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn a lot more about Mandeal&#8217;s life from his excellent biography <em>&#8220;Long Walk To Freedom&#8221;<\/em> which I have reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Biographies#LWTF\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela spent 17 years in jail on Robben Island and you can read about my visit to the island <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthernAfrica.html#Cape\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela was born 100 years ago today on 18 July 1918 in the village of Mvezo in Umtata, then part of South Africa&#8217;s Cape Province. So today is a good time to remember this remarkable man and his wonderful achievements. You can learn a lot more about Mandeal&#8217;s life from his excellent biography &#8220;Long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303","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=23303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23311,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303\/revisions\/23311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}