{"id":4715,"date":"2026-05-10T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:55:49","slug":"nelson-mandela-became-president-of-south-africa-in-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4715","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela Became President of South Africa in 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14523\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mandela.jpg\" alt=\"Nelson Mandela\" width=\"162\" height=\"227\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nelson Mandela<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of South Africa in 1994<\/strong>. The anti-apartheid icon served until 1999 and died in 2013. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ducksters.com\/biography\/nelson_mandela.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nelson Mandela<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of South Africa in 1994. The anti-apartheid icon served until 1999 and died in 2013. Children can learn more at: Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5241,1973,5528,759,1971,1972],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5241","tag-anti-apartheid","tag-may-10","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-president","tag-south-africa","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22333,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions\/22333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}