{"id":5681,"date":"2015-07-02T03:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T20:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2015-07-02T03:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T20:11:40","slug":"perhaps-i-should-ask-obama-to-marry-me-mugabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/perhaps-i-should-ask-obama-to-marry-me-mugabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps I should ask Obama to marry me: Mugabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has sarcastically promised to travel to Washington and ask for Barack Obama&#8217;s hand in marriage, following the legalisation of gay marriage across America by the Supreme Court last week, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe, who is known for his extreme anti-gay views allegedly said this during an interview with state radio, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve just concluded since president Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people and enjoys an attractive countenance thus if it becomes necessary , I shall travel to Washington, DC , get down on my knee , and ask his [Obama\u2019s] hand,\u201d Mugabe was reported as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe said he could not understand why &#8220;this people dare to defy Christ\u2019s explicit orders as our Lord prohibited mankind from sodomy&#8221;, adding that the American government was run by pervert, Satan-worshipers who insulted the Great American nation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/Zimbabwe\/Mugabe-I-should-ask-Obama-to-marry-me-20150701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More &#8211; News24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has sarcastically promised to travel to Washington and ask for Barack Obama&#8217;s hand in marriage, following the legalisation of gay marriage across America by the Supreme Court last week, according to reports. Mugabe, who is known for his extreme anti-gay views allegedly said this during an interview with state radio, the [&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":[248],"tags":[258,256,4567,4568,4571,4566,4570,427,257,4564,4573,4569,4574,4572,254,4693,4565,4686,421],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-america","tag-anti-gay","tag-christ","tag-hand-in-marriage","tag-homosexual","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-obama","tag-pervert","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-satan-worshipers","tag-sodomy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-washington","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","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=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/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=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}