{"id":50781,"date":"2013-12-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/50781\/mandela-a-smell-of-fresh-rosesormadiba-a-fresh-smell-of-rosesora-rose-portrait-of-madibaor\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T08:16:35","slug":"mandela-a-smell-of-fresh-rosesormadiba-a-fresh-smell-of-rosesora-rose-portrait-of-madibaor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/12\/18\/mandela-a-smell-of-fresh-rosesormadiba-a-fresh-smell-of-rosesora-rose-portrait-of-madibaor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela a smell of fresh roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston City Hall is one of the metro&#8217;s main mourning venues for Nelson Mandela where a striking portrait of Mandela, about two metres tall, greets you as you enter.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a glance from a distance, the portrait looks like a carpet with Madiba&#8217;s face.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As you walk towards the picture, one discovers an astounding artistic work made with roses and the beautiful smell confirms it.<\/p>\n<p>Madiba is arguably, one of the world&#8217;s leading figures whose persona has been prominently expressed through art over the years.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This augurs well for the world icon because he, among other things, fought for artists to freely express themselves through art.<\/p>\n<p>The team that designed and built this amazing artistry includes the metro&#8217;s employees in the department of parks.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Ekurhuleni believes that even though the roses may wither away, the memory and legacy of Madiba will remain until the end of time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='932b1f4bc0958bfd60afce01e9f3bec0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rose portrait of Madiba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":50782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[2501,2412,2413,979,2500,1246,1260,2497,2498,2499],"class_list":["post-50781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-city-of-ekurhuleni","tag-former-president-nelson-mandela","tag-former-president-nelson-rolihlahla-mandela","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-hall","tag-madiba","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-nelson-rolihlahla-mandela","tag-rose-portrait-of-nelson-mandela","tag-tribute-to-mandela"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["city of ekurhuleni","former president nelson mandela","Former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela","germiston","Germiston City Hall","madiba","nelson mandela","nelson rolihlahla mandela","Rose portrait of Nelson Mandela","Tribute to Mandela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}