{"id":277120,"date":"2016-12-15T17:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277120"},"modified":"2016-12-15T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:28:04","slug":"the-black-madiba-a-tribute-to-nelson-rolihlahla-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277120","title":{"rendered":"The Black Madiba: A tribute to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLACK he was, yet he moved the world.<br \/>\nBLACK he was, yet resonating was his word.<br \/>\nBLACK he was, yet a model we saw.<br \/>\nBLACK he was, yet he stood out amongst all.<br \/>\nBLACK he was, and he made BLACK COUNT!<\/p>\n<p>The Mvezo-born Rolihlahla!<br \/>\nYes, you were named a trouble maker<br \/>\nBut you lived a freedom fighter, a peacemaker<br \/>\nA model leader.<\/p>\n<p>Christened a Nelson.<br \/>\nKept in prison.<br \/>\nYour resolve never imprisoned.<br \/>\nYou showed the world that might within is greater than might without.<\/p>\n<p>O the streets of Rivonia shall miss the rattling steps of a hero.<br \/>\nQunu-Mthatha weep not! To your soil your son cometh for his rest.<br \/>\nHe has made thee proud.<br \/>\nHe has made thee Count.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to impact as he.<\/p>\n<p>HAIL MADIBA ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Senyo\u00a0Hosi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLACK he was, yet he moved the world. BLACK he was, yet resonating was his word. BLACK he was, yet a model we saw. BLACK he was, yet he stood out amongst all. BLACK he was, and he made BLACK COUNT! The Mvezo-born Rolihlahla! Yes, you were named a trouble maker But you lived a [&hellip;]<\/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":[374],"tags":[14317,9440,14318,810,14319],"class_list":["post-277120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-death-of-nelson-mandela","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-nelson-mandela-death","tag-senyo-hosi","tag-tribute-to-mandela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277120","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=277120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277120\/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=277120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}