{"id":70604,"date":"2013-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/primus-pays-tribute-to-nelson-mandela\/"},"modified":"2013-06-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T23:00:00","slug":"primus-pays-tribute-to-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/primus-pays-tribute-to-nelson-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"Primus pays tribute to Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld &#038; Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church says &quot;To 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. In the death of Nelson Mandela, the world has lost its greatest statesman. South Africa has lost a father figure, the founder of the post-apartheid nation. 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. &quot;We give thanks today for Nelson Mandela and what he taught a troubled world through the depth of his character and his humility. We share the sadness of all who mourn his loss today &#8211; particularly with rainbow peoples of South Africa. &quot;May he rest in peace.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld &#038; Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church says &quot;To 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&#8230;&quot;","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70604","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=70604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}