{"id":7835,"date":"2011-06-23T15:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2011-06-23T14:36:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:36:39","slug":"michelle-obama-and-family-meet-with-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7835","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama And Family Meet With Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8212; <strong>First Lady Michelle Obama<\/strong> and her family are paying their respects to <strong>Nelson Mandela<\/strong> during a private visit at the former South African president&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Obama<\/strong>, daughters<strong> Malia<\/strong> and <strong>Sasha<\/strong>, and her mother, <strong>Marian Robinson<\/strong>, were viewing some of <strong>Mandela&#8217;s<\/strong> personal papers at his foundation Tuesday when &#8212; according to White House officials &#8212; he sent word that he wanted to meet them.<\/p>\n<p>It was <strong>Mrs. Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> first meeting with the prisoner-turned-president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Mandela<\/strong> spent 27 years in prison for his role in the anti-apartheid movement. After his release, he went on to become the country&#8217;s first Black elected president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> niece and nephew, who are traveling with her, were also invited to meet <strong>Mandela<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8212; First Lady Michelle Obama and her family are paying their respects to Nelson Mandela during a private visit at the former South African president&#8217;s home. Mrs. Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson, were viewing some of Mandela&#8217;s personal papers at his foundation Tuesday when &#8212; according to White House [&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-7835","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\/7835","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=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}