{"id":3889,"date":"2010-02-11T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2018-09-26T04:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T23:01:17","slug":"nelson-mandela-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/nelson-mandela-freed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela&#8230; freed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3890\" title=\"Nelson_Mandela\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nelson_Mandela.jpg\" alt=\"Nelson_Mandela\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victor_Verster_Prison\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Verster Prison<\/a>, Paarl, South Africa<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was (only) 20 years ago today that the great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelson_Mandela\" target=\"_blank\">Nelson Mandela<\/a> was finally freed, following 27 years in prison. I find it interesting (and seemingly as pertinent today as in decades past) to note how one group or nation\u2019s \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d are often labeled by the opposing group or oppressing nation as \u201cterrorists\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><em>Nelson Mandela was finally removed from the United States\u2019 <a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_Fly_List\" target=\"_blank\">No Fly List<\/a> or \u201cterrorist watch list,\u201d in July of 2008\u2026 at the age of ninety!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Verster Prison, Paarl, South Africa It was (only) 20 years ago today that the great Nelson Mandela was finally freed, following 27 years in prison. I find it interesting (and seemingly as pertinent today as in decades past) to note how one group or nation\u2019s \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d are often labeled by the opposing group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,12,14,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16068,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/16068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}