{"id":45,"date":"2021-08-22T05:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T05:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/?p=45"},"modified":"2021-08-22T05:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T05:36:01","slug":"how-my-father-became-a-great-friend-of-old-sekukuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"How my father became a great friend of old Sekukuni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British army horses and oxen ate all the young <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sorghum_bicolor\">sorghum<\/a> in the hundreds of the Bapedi lands, the good rain which fell at that time made the sorghum grow again and it ripened into a bumper crop. My father organised the reaping and thrashing of the sorghum by the natives who came back after the war. He also arranged with some Christian natives of Bochabello (Middelburg) and they came all that long distance with 12 ox wagon and transported, free of charge, all the sorghum to Mphahlele and gave it to Sekukuni when he came out of prison. After Sekukuni came out of prison, he settled on the farm Thornhill west of the Leolo mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British army horses and oxen ate all the young sorghum in the hundreds of the Bapedi lands, the good rain which fell at that time made the sorghum grow again and it ripened into a bumper crop. My father organised the reaping and thrashing of the sorghum by the natives who came back after&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/?p=45\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How my father became a great friend of old Sekukuni<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}