{"id":6770,"date":"2016-09-12T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2016-09-12T08:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T06:39:05","slug":"mugabe-standing-with-his-newest-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/mugabe-standing-with-his-newest-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe standing with his newest statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabweans couldn\u2019t resist making fun of Robert Mugabe\u2019s statue. A photo of the dictator with his wife Grace Mugabe standing with the statue started making the rounds on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The statue which stands 3.8 meters, is the work of sculptor, Dominic Benhura, who is also in the photograph.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good thing Dominic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Benhura?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Benhura<\/a> made this ugly statue of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mugabe?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Mugabe<\/a>. Citizens will enjoy knocking it down when he falls. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vQswJS5cH8\">pic.twitter.com\/vQswJS5cH8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lance Guma (@LanceGuma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanceGuma\/status\/774666931773333504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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>Zimbabweans couldn\u2019t resist making fun of Robert Mugabe\u2019s statue. A photo of the dictator with his wife Grace Mugabe standing with the statue started making the rounds on social media. The statue which stands 3.8 meters, is the work of sculptor, Dominic Benhura, who is also in the photograph. Good thing Dominic #Benhura made this [&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":[258,256,5600,3273,427,5599,257,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dominic-benhura","tag-grace-mugabe","tag-mugabe","tag-mugabe-statue","tag-news","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\/6770","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=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/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=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}