{"id":95087,"date":"2018-08-28T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bf492e23d101b2ac72f4adc115646a9b"},"modified":"2018-08-29T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:12:06","slug":"news-story-uk-gifts-historic-ss-mendi-bell-from-ww1-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=95087","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK gifts historic SS Mendi Bell from WW1 to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Updated image.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May presented the bell to South African president Cyril Ramaphosa as an example of the shared heritage that underpins the close relationship between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>The sinking of the SS Mendi in the English Channel on 21 February 1917, a disaster that resulted in the loss of 616 South Africans, is a significant historical moment in the country\u2019s history. It is commemorated by South African Armed Forces Day held on the date of the disaster and commonly referred to as Mendi day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has gifted the bell from First World War ship the SS Mendi to the Republic of South Africa, where it holds cultural and historical value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95156,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95087\/revisions\/95156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}