{"id":92062,"date":"2023-08-13T19:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=92062"},"modified":"2023-08-13T19:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T19:45:36","slug":"opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=92062","title":{"rendered":"OPINIONISTA: South Africans remain merchants of hope despite persistent awfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But what we really need to be thinking about \u2013 and acting upon \u2013 is something beyond party politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/opinionista\/2023-07-14-south-africans-are-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But what we really need to be thinking about \u2013 and acting upon \u2013 is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness.jpg",500,429,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness-300x257.jpg",300,257,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness.jpg",500,429,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness.jpg",500,429,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness.jpg",500,429,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness.jpg",500,429,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness.jpg",500,429,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness.jpg",500,429,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92062-opinionista-south-africans-remain-merchants-of-hope-despite-persistent-awfulness-500x410.jpg",500,410,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\/92062","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=92062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}