{"id":8720,"date":"2013-08-07T19:33:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2013-08-07T19:33:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:33:58","slug":"mandela-is-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8720","title":{"rendered":"Mandela is conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nelson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8721\" alt=\"nelson\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nelson.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a>Former president Nelson Mandela is conscious, but still in a critical condition. That\u2019s according to Anglican Bishop Joe Seoka.<\/p>\n<p>The ailing former statesman is conscious and aware, Seoka told reporters outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, in Pretoria, where Mandela is being treated.<\/p>\n<p>Seoka, who is the president of the SA Council Of Churches, said Mandela&#8217;s wife Graca Machel had informed them of his condition.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop was part of a group of religious leaders from the SACC who delivered prayers for Mandela and ministered to his family.<\/p>\n<p>They did not go into the room was Mandela was being treated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did not see him,&#8221; said Seoka. &#8220;We prayed in a room reserved for visitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Mandela would be discharged soon, Seoka said he had no information on that.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela has been in hospital for almost two months. He was admitted to hospital on June 8 with a recurring lung infection. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Nelson Mandela is conscious, but still in a critical condition. That\u2019s according to Anglican Bishop Joe Seoka. The ailing former statesman is conscious and aware, Seoka told reporters outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, in Pretoria, where Mandela is being treated. Seoka, who is the president of the SA Council Of Churches, said Mandela&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mandela is conscious&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4875,560,4874],"class_list":["post-8720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-conscious","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-sacc"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nelson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720","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=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}