{"id":6779,"date":"2013-03-28T02:47:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T02:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mandela-back-in-hospital-with-lung-infection\/"},"modified":"2013-03-28T02:49:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T02:49:20","slug":"mandela-back-in-hospital-with-lung-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mandela-back-in-hospital-with-lung-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela Back in Hospital with Lung Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said on Thursday.}}<\/p>\n<p>A statement said the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader was admitted shortly before midnight. It gave no further details other than to say he was receiving the &#8220;best possible expert medical treatment and comfort&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela was admitted briefly to hospital earlier this month for a check up.<\/p>\n<p>However, he spent nearly three weeks in hospital in December with a lung infection and after surgery to remove gallstones.<\/p>\n<p>It was his longest stay in hospital since his release from prison in 1990 after serving 27 years for conspiring to overthrow the white-minority apartheid government.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2267 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ggu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Reuters}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said on Thursday.}} A statement said the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader was admitted shortly before midnight. It gave no further details other than to say he was receiving the &#8220;best possible expert medical treatment and comfort&#8221;. Mandela was admitted briefly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}