{"id":48296,"date":"2013-07-06T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/south-african-government-denies-mandela-is-vegetative\/48296\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T16:06:11","slug":"south-african-government-denies-mandela-is-vegetative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/south-african-government-denies-mandela-is-vegetative\/","title":{"rendered":"South African government denies Mandela is \u2018vegetative\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zaheer Cassim and Catherine Featherston<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2013\/07\/05\/mandela-not-vegetative\/2491585\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 6, 2013<\/p>\n<p>As former South African president Nelson Mandela remains on life support in a Pretoria hospital, family members continue to fight over burial details.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela, who was hospitalized on June 8, remains in critical but stable condition, according to the office of President Jacob Zuma, who visited the anti-apartheid leader Thursday. The president\u2019s office also said doctors denied reports that Mandela, 94, is in a \u201dvegetative state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A court paper filed June 27 concerning Mandela family graves said affidavits would be provided from his physicians to show that Mandela \u201cis in a permanent vegetative state.\u201d A later filing dropped that phrase. Both court filings, however, said that Mandela\u2019s breathing was machine-assisted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2013\/07\/05\/mandela-not-vegetative\/2491585\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaheer Cassim and Catherine Featherston USA TODAY July 6, 2013 As former South African president Nelson Mandela remains on life support in a Pretoria hospital, family members continue to fight over burial details. Mandela, who was hospitalized on June 8, remains in critical but stable condition, according to the office of President Jacob Zuma, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}