{"id":4091,"date":"2014-07-15T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2014-07-15T17:08:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T10:08:24","slug":"us-dad-declares-his-daughter-princess-of-north-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/us-dad-declares-his-daughter-princess-of-north-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"US dad declares his daughter \u2018Princess of North Sudan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A father from Virginia has gone to extreme lengths for his daughter to become a \u201cprincess,\u201d flying to Africa and claiming a \u201ckingdom\u201d between Egypt and Sudan so that she can become royalty.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah Heaton trekked across Egyptian deserts to find an unclaimed land between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil. It is reported that Bir Tawil is among the last pieces of unclaimed land on earth and Heaton had to claim it for his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the time I had no idea how I would honor her wish but I knew that I had to find a way,&#8221; Heaton said, in comments carried by the Huffington Post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/variety\/2014\/07\/15\/U-S-dad-declares-his-daughter-Princess-of-North-Sudan-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father from Virginia has gone to extreme lengths for his daughter to become a \u201cprincess,\u201d flying to Africa and claiming a \u201ckingdom\u201d between Egypt and Sudan so that she can become royalty. Jeremiah Heaton trekked across Egyptian deserts to find an unclaimed land between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil. It is reported that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,2747,2746,2745,257,4694,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bir-tawil","tag-jeremiah-heaton","tag-kingdom-between-egypt-and-sudan","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}