{"id":1516,"date":"2013-12-05T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2013-12-05T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:05:19","slug":"nelson-mandela-passes-away-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/12\/05\/nelson-mandela-passes-away-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela passes away at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1517\" alt=\"mandela\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/12\/mandela.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/12\/mandela.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/12\/mandela-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is now resting,&#8221; said South African President Jacob Zuma. &#8220;He is now at peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our nation as lost his greatest son,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Our people have lost their father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mandela spent 27 years in prison as an anti-apartheid icon before being a key figure in South African&#8217;s turn to democracy and eventually becoming its first black president.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela inspired a generation of activists and won the Nobel Peace Prize and raised millions for humanitarian causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95. &#8220;He is now resting,&#8221; said South African President Jacob Zuma. &#8220;He is now at peace.&#8221; &#8220;Our nation as lost his greatest son,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Our people have lost their father.&#8221; Mandela spent 27 years in prison as an anti-apartheid icon before being a key figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}