{"id":135847,"date":"2015-07-19T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135847"},"modified":"2015-07-19T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T07:00:31","slug":"mandela-day-twitter-users-honor-anti-apartheid-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=135847","title":{"rendered":"Mandela Day: Twitter users honor anti-Apartheid hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Nations General Assembly declared July 18 to be Nelson Mandela International Day in 2009. The late president of South Africa and anti-Apartheid activist, who died in 2013, was born on that day.<\/p>\n

“Mandela Day” is described as “more than a celebration of Madiba\u2019s life and legacy. It is a global movement to honour his life\u2019s work and act to change the world for the better.”<\/p>\n

The day also aims to promote acts of kindness that invoke Mandela’s spirit. Social media users are encouraged to use the hashtags #MandelaDay and #Time2Serve to pay tribute to the leader, and to share stories of others who are making a positive change in their community, respectively.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the Twitterverse had to say about #MandelaDay, which trended Saturday on the social network.<\/p>\n

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Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Nations General Assembly declared July 18 to be Nelson Mandela International Day in 2009. The late president of South Africa and anti-Apartheid activist, who died in 2013, was born on that day. “Mandela Day” is described as “more than a celebration of Madiba\u2019s life and legacy. It is a global movement to honour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":135854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-135847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}