{"id":70661,"date":"2017-08-10T15:48:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T13:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=70661"},"modified":"2017-09-08T08:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T06:37:39","slug":"video-baby-madison-chosen-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/10\/video-baby-madison-chosen-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Baby Madison has been chosen by God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a stinging indictment of the way in which the community has failed not only baby Madison but her mother and other women before them, St John&#8217;s Presbyterian Church Reverend Kokkie Smit asked &#8220;who has sinned?&#8221; sending a clear message of salvation to baby Madison&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p>He told Wednesday&#8217;s gathering that he had heard about Madison from a car guard at OK Grocer whom he befriended.<\/p>\n<p>The Middelburg Care Village choir sang a number of hymns, in one of which Madison was eulogised as a &#8220;glamorous, awesome, beautiful creature&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Baby Madison&#8217;s ashes were interred inside a biodegradable box, &#8220;so that she never finds herself inside a container again, but will be free in a place where butterflies and bees flutter around her,<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dZ_c74_9uo8' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&#8221; Ms Karen Loesch, who placed Madi&#8217;s ashes into the grave, told\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>St John&#8217;s also erected a gravestone for Madison in the church&#8217;s Garden of Remembrance where a Magnolia Grandiflora, or Little Gem tree, was also planted on top of her grave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70188\/baby-girl-found-inside-refuse-bin-laid-to-rest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baby girl found in refuse bin laid to rest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/70349\/baby-in-the-bin-madison-was-a-gift-from-god-will-find-final-resting-place-on-church-grounds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baby in bin: Madison was a gift from God, will find resting place on church grounds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middelburg&#8217;s baby Madison has been chosen by God to lead Middelburg to redemption from the sideline where the town has been dealing with our serial baby abandonment issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":70673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Zsaraeva Nel and Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","post_format-post-format-video"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70661","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}