{"id":6225,"date":"2016-04-20T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2016-04-20T08:05:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:05:44","slug":"mugabe-bows-portrait-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/mugabe-bows-portrait-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe bows to own portrait &#8211; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Independence Day celebrations in Harare on Monday, President Robert Mugabe was captured bowing to a portrait of himself while inspecting the guard.<\/p>\n<p>In this Al Jazeera YouTube video below, the 92-year-old veteran leader is seen driving around the National Stadium in Harare in an open top van before what appears to be the moment he bows to his iconic portrait.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Zimbabweans flocked to the National Stadium in the capital for the country&#8217;s main Independence Day celebrations, 36 years after the Zimbabwe flag was raised.<\/p>\n<p>Source &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/news-28808-WATCH+Mugabe+bows+to+own+portrait\/news.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewZimbabwe.Com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_OZPk9Q-tY?rel=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/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>During Independence Day celebrations in Harare on Monday, President Robert Mugabe was captured bowing to a portrait of himself while inspecting the guard. In this Al Jazeera YouTube video below, the 92-year-old veteran leader is seen driving around the National Stadium in Harare in an open top van before what appears to be the moment [&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":[258,256,5255,427,257,426,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-6225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-independence-day","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225","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=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/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=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}