{"id":20015,"date":"2013-03-14T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2013-03-14T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:25:44","slug":"8-year-old-boy-obeys-dead-ancestor-marries-61-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20015","title":{"rendered":"8-Year-Old Boy Obeys Dead Ancestor, Marries 61-Year-Old Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH AFRICA &#8212; Following the wishes of his dead namesake, 8-year-old <strong>Sanele Masilela<\/strong> got hitched to <strong>Helen Shabangu<\/strong>, 61, who is a Mother of five, in their village of Tshwane, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding announcement sent shock waves throughout the town, but according to the boy\u2019s parents, the child was merely respecting the wishes of his dead grandfather. <strong>Masilela<\/strong>, who is named after his grandfather, supposedly told by the elder to have a white lavish wedding, because he never had one before he died.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing that there would be some sort of doom brought upon him if he did not follow through with his grandfather\u2019s wishes, the boy agreed to marry the woman he loved, <strong>Shabangu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH AFRICA &#8212; Following the wishes of his dead namesake, 8-year-old Sanele Masilela got hitched to Helen Shabangu, 61, who is a Mother of five, in their village of Tshwane, South Africa. The wedding announcement sent shock waves throughout the town, but according to the boy\u2019s parents, the child was merely respecting the wishes of [&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-20015","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\/20015","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=20015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}