{"id":178760,"date":"2024-08-18T03:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-my-sons-heart-condition-forced-me-to-leave-ghana-esther-smith\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T01:45:10","slug":"ghana-my-sons-heart-condition-forced-me-to-leave-ghana-esther-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-my-sons-heart-condition-forced-me-to-leave-ghana-esther-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: My Son&#8217;s Heart Condition Forced Me to Leave Ghana &#8211; Esther Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Ghanaian gospel legend, Esther Smith, has opened up about the personal reasons that led her to relocate from Ghana to Germany years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">In an exclusive interview on The Afternoon Show on TV3, the gospel singer, who returned to Ghana after a decade-long stay in Germany, opened up about her reasons for leaving, citing her son&#8217;s premature birth and subsequent heart condition diagnosis, which prompted her to seek specialized medical care abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">She stated that she had to abandon her music career for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408160225.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian gospel legend, Esther Smith, has opened up about the personal reasons that led her to relocate from Ghana to Germany years ago. In an exclusive interview on The Afternoon Show on TV3, the gospel singer, who returned to Ghana after a decade-long stay in Germany, opened up about her reasons for leaving, citing her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,10927,4775,9512,4508,4509,5264,6775,257,10555,10032,254],"class_list":["post-178760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condition","tag-esther","tag-forced","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-heart","tag-leave","tag-news","tag-smith","tag-sons","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}