{"id":22775,"date":"2014-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/22775\/linda-excels-at-mrs-united-nations-sa\/"},"modified":"2014-12-12T09:09:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T07:09:33","slug":"linda-excels-at-mrs-united-nations-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2014\/12\/12\/linda-excels-at-mrs-united-nations-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda excels at Mrs United Nations SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The black-tie Mrs United Nations SA 2015 crowning event took place at Stone Cradle Restaurant last week. Ten finalists from across the country competed for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng&#8217;s Desiree Oliphant won the competition, with Fransisca Liebenberg from North West&#8217;s as first princess and Linda, the only finalist from Mpumalanga, as second princess.<\/p>\n<p>Linda also walked away with the Fitness Award as well as the Community Service and Booklet Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Judges for the evening included South African designer extraordinaire, Simon Rademan, former Mrs UN International Liesel-Krause Wiid, and actress\/author Fatima Abdul. Singing duo Natasha and Willie Joubert and MC Robbie Cruz provided the entertainment for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs UN SA director Zantie Swanepoel said that the core purpose of the competition, which stands for family, faith and community, is to change one soul at a time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Linda is now automatically going through to the Mrs International competition in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Lourens, our own Mrs Community Greater Middelburg, was just crowned as second princess at the Mrs United Nations SA 2015 competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":22776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}