{"id":265313,"date":"2019-02-12T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=265313"},"modified":"2019-02-12T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:30:09","slug":"addis-ababa-residents-react-to-emperor-haile-selassies-new-statue-at-the-african-union-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/265313","title":{"rendered":"Addis Ababa residents react to Emperor Haile Selassie\u2019s new statue at the African Union HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Iddtu11wwDk<\/p>\n<p>Emperor Haile Selassie was the last monarch of Ethiopia. The emperor was one of the founding fathers of the then Organization for African Unity (OAU) and has been the symbol of Pan Africanism. During the annual African Union Summit, the leaders unveiled the statue of Emperor Haile Selassie in recognition of his role for founding OAU.<\/p>\n<p>Mereja TV interviewed Addis Ababa\u2019s residents on their thought about the statue of the late emperor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Iddtu11wwDk Emperor Haile Selassie was the last monarch of Ethiopia. The emperor was one of the founding fathers of the then Organization for African Unity (OAU) and has been the symbol of Pan Africanism. During the annual African Union Summit, the leaders unveiled the statue of Emperor Haile Selassie in recognition of his role for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":265314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Addis-Ababa-residents-react-to-Haile-Selassie-statue-at-AU.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-171f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265315,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265313\/revisions\/265315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}