{"id":188842,"date":"2025-01-17T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nimbaians-mourn-as-the-body-of-prince-johnson-arrives-in-ganta\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:38:21","slug":"liberia-nimbaians-mourn-as-the-body-of-prince-johnson-arrives-in-ganta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nimbaians-mourn-as-the-body-of-prince-johnson-arrives-in-ganta\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Nimbaians Mourn As the Body of Prince Johnson Arrives in Ganta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Ganta \u2014 Thousands of Nimbaians gathered in a somber yet spirited procession on Tuesday, January 15, 2025, to receive the remains of their revered leader, Senator Prince Yormie Johnson, as his body arrived in Ganta from the nation&#8217;s capital, Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The crowd, comprising citizens from all walks of life, came together to pay their final respects to the man they fondly referred to as the &#8220;godfather&#8221; of Nimba County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><strong>Unprecedented Display of Respect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">FrontPage Africa&#8217;s Nimba County correspondent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501160566.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ganta \u2014 Thousands of Nimbaians gathered in a somber yet spirited procession on Tuesday, January 15, 2025, to receive the remains of their revered leader, Senator Prince Yormie Johnson, as his body arrived in Ganta from the nation&#8217;s capital, Monrovia. The crowd, comprising citizens from all walks of life, came together to pay their final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188843,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8692,7978,11877,10228,4712,1107,13365,257,27411,16844,254],"class_list":["post-188842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrives","tag-body","tag-ganta","tag-johnson","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mourn","tag-news","tag-nimbaians","tag-prince","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\/188842","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=188842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}