{"id":70583,"date":"2013-12-06T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/primus-pays-tribute-nelson-mandela\/"},"modified":"2013-12-06T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:28:00","slug":"primus-pays-tribute-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/primus-pays-tribute-nelson-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"Primus pays tribute to Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld &amp; Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo stand in the tiny cell which Nelson Mandela occupied for so many years was to wonder &#8211; to wonder how he could have emerged from such confinement with a warm personality and a generous and forgiving spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the death of Nelson Mandela, the world has lost its greatest statesman.\u00a0 South Africa has lost a father figure, the founder of the post-apartheid nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People everywhere who dream of peace and reconciliation mourn a person who showed that such dreams can become reality &#8211; but a reality born only of costly suffering and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe give thanks today for Nelson Mandela and what he taught a troubled world through the depth of his character and his humility.\u00a0 We share the sadness of all who mourn his loss today &#8211; particularly with rainbow peoples of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay he rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld &amp; Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church says: \u201cTo stand in the tiny cell which Nelson Mandela occupied for so many years was to wonder &#8211; to wonder how he could have emerged from such confinement with a warm personality and a generous [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}