{"id":7122,"date":"2013-07-14T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2013-07-14T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T13:37:02","slug":"balloons-flowers-flags-for-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7122","title":{"rendered":"Balloons, flowers, flags for Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6123\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NelsonMandela_cardsflowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6123\" alt=\"Cards and flowers for Nelson Mandela outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NelsonMandela_cardsflowers-300x162.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NelsonMandela_cardsflowers-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NelsonMandela_cardsflowers.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cards and flowers for Nelson Mandela outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colourful balloons, flower baskets, and South African flags were among the items left outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria where former president Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People continued to visit the Celliers Street wall on Sunday, and posed for pictures in front of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shrine of messages continued to grow, with organisations also adding their words of support. One get well poster was from the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court and another from the University of the Free State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">White media marquees lined the street, and journalists took shelter from the heat while keeping a close watch. Police continued to monitor the hospital entrance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday marked Mandela&#8217;s 37th day in hospital. He was admitted on June 8 with a recurring lung infection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Presidency said last week that he remained in a critical but stable condition. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colourful balloons, flower baskets, and South African flags were among the items left outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria where former president Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition. People continued to visit the Celliers Street wall on Sunday, and posed for pictures in front of it. The shrine of messages continued to grow, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balloons, flowers, flags for Mandela&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2242,1381,327],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-health","tag-hospital","tag-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\/06\/NelsonMandela_cardsflowers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7124,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions\/7124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}