{"id":7512,"date":"2013-07-22T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7512"},"modified":"2013-07-22T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T07:16:00","slug":"mandela-not-a-google-doodle-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7512","title":{"rendered":"Mandela not a Google doodle&#8230; yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7513\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rembrandt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7513\" alt=\"Rembrandt\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rembrandt.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rembrandt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A day seldom goes by without a visit to Google for millions of people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And what a treat when the Google logo on the home page is altered to celebrate anything from ice-cream sundaes to Rembrandt van Rijn&#8217;s 407th birthday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The modified logos are referred to as Google doodles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN General Assembly in 2009 designated July 18 as Nelson Mandela International Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the world celebrated South Africa&#8217;s most famous statesman&#8217;s birthday last week, the day, surprisingly, was not marked by the creation of a doodle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest South African doodle was designed for Freedom Day this year and Miriam Makeba&#8217;s 81st birthday was celebrated in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madiba might not have had a doodle but last year Google contributed R8.6-million to the Nelson Mandela Centre for Memory to digitise &#8220;thousands of archival documents, photographs and videos&#8221; dealing with Mandela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Google, there is a team of illustrators and engineers that designs its doodles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">International demand has led to an increase in the amount of artwork generated- 1000 have been created for Google&#8217;s home page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not every occasion is doodled. A lot depends on demand: a group of Googlers might come together to suggest a doodle or the idea can come from the general public. &#8211; timeslive.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day seldom goes by without a visit to Google for millions of people. And what a treat when the Google logo on the home page is altered to celebrate anything from ice-cream sundaes to Rembrandt van Rijn&#8217;s 407th birthday. The modified logos are referred to as Google doodles. The UN General Assembly in 2009 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mandela not a Google doodle&#8230; yet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[2130,4094,327,4095],"class_list":["post-7512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-google","tag-google-doodle","tag-mandela","tag-nelson-mandela-international-day"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rembrandt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512","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=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7515,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions\/7515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}