{"id":6423,"date":"2017-02-07T21:45:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T04:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2017-02-07T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T04:45:36","slug":"forgiveness-liberates-the-soul-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/forgiveness-liberates-the-soul-nelson-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness liberates the soul . . . \u2014 Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>Forgiveness liberates the soul<\/em>,\u201d Mandela explained to a crowd. \u201c<em>That\u2019s why it\u2019s such a powerful weapon<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The movie \u201cInvictus,\u201d featuring Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman is about Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison. After he was released and elected as South Africa\u2019s first black president, he preached reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>When he decided to support the country\u2019s rugby team \u2014 long a symbol of white oppression \u2014 his countrymen were stunned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Forgiveness liberates the soul<\/em>,\u201d Mandela explained to a crowd. \u201c<em>That\u2019s why it\u2019s such a powerful weapon<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When writing, especially freewrites, you may experience epiphanies that will enlighten and inform you.\u00a0\u00a0 Best wishes to you as you write. Just write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cForgiveness liberates the soul,\u201d Mandela explained to a crowd. \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s such a powerful weapon.\u201d The movie \u201cInvictus,\u201d featuring Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman is about Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison. After he was released and elected as South Africa\u2019s first black president, he preached reconciliation. When he decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1FB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}