{"id":12427,"date":"2013-12-20T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12427"},"modified":"2013-12-20T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:29:09","slug":"mandela-tribute-mistakes-morgan-freeman-for-dead-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12427","title":{"rendered":"Mandela tribute mistakes Morgan Freeman for dead &#8216;icon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12428\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/morgan-freeman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12428\" alt=\"Morgan Freeman posing as Mandela\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/morgan-freeman-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/morgan-freeman-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/morgan-freeman.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Freeman posing as Mandela<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">American actor Morgan Freeman is known for his portrayal of South African leader Nelson Mandela in the Clint Eastwood drama Invictus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps Freeman&#8217;s performance in the 2009 was too good as it lead to some confusion for an Indian-based billboard artist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An owner of a billboard dedicated to Nelson Mandela was red-faced on Thursday after the discovery that a photo of actor Morgan Freeman was used instead of one of the anti-apartheid hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The billboard was erected on the side of a road in Coimbatore as part of memorials across India and the world to Mandela, who died on December 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American actor Morgan Freeman is known for his portrayal of South African leader Nelson Mandela in the Clint Eastwood drama Invictus. Perhaps Freeman&#8217;s performance in the 2009 was too good as it lead to some confusion for an Indian-based billboard artist. An owner of a billboard dedicated to Nelson Mandela was red-faced on Thursday after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mandela tribute mistakes Morgan Freeman for dead &#8216;icon&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[1699,7874,560],"class_list":["post-12427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-india","tag-morgan-freeman","tag-nelson-mandela"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/morgan-freeman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12429,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions\/12429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}