{"id":31153,"date":"2016-12-17T04:20:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T04:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/jacob-zuma-speech-tent-blows-away-in-the-middle\/"},"modified":"2016-12-17T04:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T04:19:42","slug":"jacob-zuma-speech-tent-blows-away-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/jacob-zuma-speech-tent-blows-away-in-the-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Zuma speech: Tent blows away in the middle of a speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{South Africa&#8217;s President Jacob Zuma was forced to run for cover after a tent in which he was giving a speech collapsed.}<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds and rain tore through the marquee, where Mr Zuma was addressing a crowd for Reconciliation Day.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted on social media by local reporters showed people scrambling for safety as the tent blew upwards and the president was rushed off stage.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of injuries during the storm, in Gopane in South Africa&#8217;s North West province.<\/p>\n<p>Reconciliation Day is meant to promote unity among South Africa&#8217;s racial groups following the end of white minority rule in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>With the tent up in the air, all further proceedings were cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{South Africa&#8217;s President Jacob Zuma was forced to run for cover after a tent in which he was giving a speech collapsed.} Strong winds and rain tore through the marquee, where Mr Zuma was addressing a crowd for Reconciliation Day. A video posted on social media by local reporters showed people scrambling for safety as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31153"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31153"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}