{"id":176186,"date":"2025-09-15T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=176186"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:15:33","slug":"opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=176186","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Pieter Coetze breaks through as SA\u2019s newest global swimming star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Coetze became the first South African in 20 years to earn three medals at a single edition of the World Aquatics Championships&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/sport\/opinion-pieter-coetze-sa-newest-swimming-star\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Coetze became the first South African in 20 years to earn three medals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star.jpg",1500,1001,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star-768x513.jpg",640,428,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star.jpg",1500,1001,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star.jpg",1500,1001,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176186-opinion-pieter-coetze-breaks-through-as-sas-newest-global-swimming-star-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=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176186","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=176186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}