{"id":10223,"date":"2011-09-29T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10223"},"modified":"2011-09-29T12:47:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:47:06","slug":"first-african-woman-to-win-nobel-peace-prize-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10223","title":{"rendered":"First African Woman To Win Nobel Peace Prize Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, KENYA<\/strong> \u2013<strong> Wangari Maathai<\/strong>, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s most recognizable woman, <strong>Maathai<\/strong> won the Nobel in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism. She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, where over 30 years she mobilized poor women to plant 30 million trees.<\/p>\n<p>In recognizing <strong>Maathai<\/strong>, the Nobel committee said that she had stood up to a former oppressive regime \u2013 a reference to former Kenyan <strong>President Daniel arap Moi<\/strong> \u2013 and that her \u201cunique forms of action have contributed to drawing attention to political oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, KENYA \u2013 Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71. Kenya\u2019s most recognizable woman, Maathai won the Nobel in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism. She was the founder of the Green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}