{"id":51758,"date":"2026-05-02T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ghanaian-family-traces-its-roots-to-a-tree-said-to-be-planted-in-apam-in-the-13th-century\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:10:39","slug":"ghanaian-family-traces-its-roots-to-a-tree-said-to-be-planted-in-apam-in-the-13th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ghanaian-family-traces-its-roots-to-a-tree-said-to-be-planted-in-apam-in-the-13th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian family traces its roots to a tree said to be planted in Apam in the 13th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">According to oral history passed down over the generations, Santseo was planted in the 13th Century by Komfo Nana Asumbia, a royal figure to whom we trace our lineage. However, to my knowledge, no tests have been done to check how old the tree really is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce9pz3grkjeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to oral history passed down over the generations, Santseo was planted in the 13th Century by Komfo Nana Asumbia, a royal figure to whom we trace our lineage. However, to my knowledge, no tests have been done to check how old the tree really is. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51760,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51758\/revisions\/51760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}