{"id":600,"date":"2013-12-05T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.borg.org\/?p=600"},"modified":"2013-12-05T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T00:08:00","slug":"mandela-im-honored-to-have-been-alive-while-he-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Mandela: I&#039;m Honored to Have Been Alive While He Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man of strength, accomplishment, wisdom, and compassion. He certainly suffered, but he had some fun too, and lived long enough for many to consider him something akin to a living saint.<\/p>\n<p>He was controversial, at the peak of the struggle against apartheid, Ronald Reagan and the United States government considered him more a terrorist than hero. I consider him akin to George Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. I am honored to have been on this earth while he was alive.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man of strength, accomplishment, wisdom, and compassion. He certainly suffered, but he had some fun too, and lived long enough for many to consider him something akin to a living saint. He was controversial, at the peak of the struggle against apartheid, Ronald Reagan and the United States government considered him more a terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,124,204,265,288],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apartheid","tag-george-washington","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}