{"id":964572,"date":"2024-07-06T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964572"},"modified":"2024-07-06T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:26:13","slug":"festive-celebrations-for-northern-cape-centenarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/festive-celebrations-for-northern-cape-centenarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive celebrations for Northern Cape centenarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has another centenarian.<\/p>\n<p>Magdalene Bostander from Jan Kempdorp in the Northern Cape turned 100 years-old earlier this week and is being celebrated by friends and family.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">Northern Cape&#8217;s Magdalene Bostander celebrates a century<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zIPRcimpn3Q?si=_g2u3I4j89ri-FhH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bostander saw World War II, the Great Depression and lived through Apartheid in her many years on earth.<\/p>\n<p>She remembers fondly a time when people were much more tolerant towards each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People were much friendlier towards each other in the olden days. People respected each other unlike now,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Her son Fernando Bostander says although he grew up in an impoverished family, lessons imparted to him by his mother taught him how to persevere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is one thing, I learnt from my mother is that when times get tough, you must pray and sing hymns,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magdalene Bostander has lived through World War II, the Great Depression and Apartheid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":964573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[742,743],"class_list":["post-964572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-centenary","tag-northern-cape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}