{"id":52163,"date":"2026-05-08T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/former-botswana-president-festus-mogae-dies-aged-86\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:33:27","slug":"former-botswana-president-festus-mogae-dies-aged-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/former-botswana-president-festus-mogae-dies-aged-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Botswana President Festus Mogae dies aged 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Announcing his death, President Duma Boko said Mogae was &#8220;a distinguished statesman and patriot&#8221;.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9we8lnyr2ko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing his death, President Duma Boko said Mogae was &#8220;a distinguished statesman and patriot&#8221;. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52163","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\/52163","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=52163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52165,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52163\/revisions\/52165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}