{"id":63844,"date":"2018-07-18T07:21:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=63844"},"modified":"2018-07-18T07:21:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T14:21:11","slug":"former-president-barack-obama-delivers-speech-at-16th-nelson-mandela-annual-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=63844","title":{"rendered":"Former President Barack Obama Delivers Speech At 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg, South Africa&#8230;Former President Barack Obama spoke at the 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture.  Former President Barack Obama delivered a major speech, addressing inequality and other issues at the annual Mandela Lecture.  This year honored the 100th birthday of the late leader who became a world wide icon.  South Africa is now struggling through instances of retributional activities where lands and property of minority whites are being taken under wealth redistribution policies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/md_l4u-1vRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For many these policies are deemed justifiable.  Arguments can be made that they are after activities in the apartheid era.  They also highlight how property rights are a cornerstone of functional democracies.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg, South Africa&#8230;Former President Barack Obama spoke at the 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. Former President Barack Obama delivered a major speech, addressing inequality and other issues at the annual Mandela Lecture. This year honored the 100th birthday of the late leader who became a world wide icon. South Africa is now struggling through instances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Fullscreen-capture-7182018-71650-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}