{"id":265634,"date":"2019-02-14T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=265634"},"modified":"2019-02-14T18:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:42:27","slug":"interview-with-emperor-haile-selassies-grandson-prince-beedemariam-mekonnen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/265634","title":{"rendered":"Emperor Haile Selassie\u2019s grandson speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ioEYcUmvLEs<\/p>\n<p>In the recent African Union summit, the leaders unveiled the statue of Emperor Haile Selassie as a recognition of the emperor\u2019s efforts for African unity. Emperor Haile Selassie was the last monarch of Ethiopia, and for years his family remained in the shadows after the Derg regime took over Ethiopia. The statue tribute has an immense meaning for the remaining families of the emperor.<br \/>\nMereja TV interviewed Emperor Haile Selassie\u2019s grandson Prince Be\u2019edemariam Mekonnen about the statue. Watch the prince\u2019s reaction and his thoughts on whether the statue resembles his grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ioEYcUmvLEs In the recent African Union summit, the leaders unveiled the statue of Emperor Haile Selassie as a recognition of the emperor\u2019s efforts for African unity. Emperor Haile Selassie was the last monarch of Ethiopia, and for years his family remained in the shadows after the Derg regime took over Ethiopia. The statue tribute has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":265635,"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-265634","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\/Prince-Beedemariam-Mekonnen.jpg?fit=901%2C511&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-176q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265634","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=265634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265649,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265634\/revisions\/265649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}