{"id":41497,"date":"2013-12-11T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_six_things_you_didnt_know_about_nelson_mandela\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T16:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:00:52","slug":"bbc_six_things_you_didnt_know_about_nelson_mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41497","title":{"rendered":"(BBC)  Six things you didn\u2019t know about Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name &#8211; Nelson &#8211; in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.<\/p>\n<p>This was common practice in South Africa and in other parts of the continent, where a person could often be given an English name that foreigners would find easier to pronounce.<\/p>\n<p>Rolihlahla is not a common name in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-22006386\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name &#8211; Nelson &#8211; in accordance with the custom to give all school children<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41497\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,202,438,133,184,151,330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}