{"id":4301,"date":"2013-04-19T05:16:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T05:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2013-04-19T05:16:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T05:16:51","slug":"buthelezi-mistaken-for-ray-charles-at-thatchers-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4301","title":{"rendered":"Buthelezi mistaken for Ray Charles at Thatcher&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4302\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/buthelezi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4302\" title=\"buthelezi\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/buthelezi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Risen from the dead? Buthelezi as Ray Charles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi was mistaken for the late singer Ray Charles at former Britain prime minister Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s funeral in Britain, it was reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, gave his sermon, cameras suddenly turned to \u201ca dapper-looking Ray Charles\u201d, The Times newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lady Thatcher died of stroke last week, aged 87, having governed Britain between 1979 and 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buthelezi was among the dignitaries who bade farewell to the \u201cIron Lady\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Confused viewers took to the social media network Twitter about \u201cRay Charles\u201d attending the funeral. Ray Charles passed away in 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">@Jlloydbutler: \u201cWhy are Netanyahu and Ray Charles sitting next to each other?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">@TheShottstepper: \u201cRay Charles?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">@bumface69: \u201cRay Charles at #thatcherfuneral; WTMF?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">@PaulStafford12: \u201cGood of Ray Charles to show up all the same. What&#8217;d I say?\u201d &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi was mistaken for the late singer Ray Charles at former Britain prime minister Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s funeral in Britain, it was reported on Thursday. While the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, gave his sermon, cameras suddenly turned to \u201ca dapper-looking Ray Charles\u201d, The Times newspaper reported. Lady Thatcher died of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Buthelezi mistaken for Ray Charles at Thatcher&#8217;s funeral&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[483,2695],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-buthelezi","tag-ray-charles"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/buthelezi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","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=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}