{"id":143648,"date":"2024-02-28T02:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=143648"},"modified":"2024-02-28T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:45:08","slug":"news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=143648","title":{"rendered":"News24 | OPINION | Mike Pothier and Marlene Barnard: Happy to let other people run your life for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite making choices everyday on a variety of things, South Africans are quite happy to let other people make choices for us when it comes to politics, write Mike Pothier and Marlene Barnard<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/opinions\/columnists\/guestcolumn\/opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you-20240203\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite making choices everyday on a variety of things, South Africans are quite happy to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you.jpg",1024,768,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you.jpg",1024,768,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you.jpg",1024,768,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you.jpg",1024,768,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/143648-news24-opinion-mike-pothier-and-marlene-barnard-happy-to-let-other-people-run-your-life-for-you-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}