{"id":760,"date":"2005-09-18T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T16:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=760"},"modified":"2005-09-18T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T16:50:19","slug":"mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">R<\/span><a href=\".\/wp-content\/free_nelson_mandela.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-free_nelson_mandela.jpg' alt='Free Nelson Mandela' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>eading this interview with former president Bill Clinton [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.financeasia.com\/articles\/4A74EC7A-9027-7E17-4B873115FF144C4F.cfm\">part1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financeasia.com\/articles\/4E718926-9027-7E17-4B7EF9778FE76A1C.cfm\">part2<\/a>](<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/45192\">via Metafilter<\/a>) , the following portion stuck out (on meeting Mandela):\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">I said that, &#8216;Now, come on, when you got to walk out of prison the last time, didn&#8217;t you hate all those people all over again?&#8217;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHe said, &#8216;I did, briefly. But when I was walking to freedom, the last steps, I realised that they already had me for 27 years and if I hated them when I got out the door, they would still have me and I wanted to be free, so I let it go.\n<\/p>\n<p>Clinton calls Mandela &#8216;a treasure of the earth&#8217;, something I can only agree with. What would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypocrites.com\/article4496.html\">Thatcher<\/a> think now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this interview with former president Bill Clinton [part1, part2](via Metafilter) , the following portion stuck out (on meeting Mandela): I said that, &#8216;Now, come on, when you got to walk out of prison the last time, didn&#8217;t you hate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=760\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}