{"id":12351,"date":"2009-10-28T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2009-10-28T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T03:00:10","slug":"playing-the-enemy-nelson-mandela-and-the-game-that-made-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12351","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Playing-Enemy-Nelson-Mandela-Nation\/dp\/1594201749\">this book<\/a> when it came out. It&#8217;s a good read and a good window into post-apartheid South Africa and the World Cup rugby final that united a nation.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is being made into a <a href=\"http:\/\/teaser-trailer.com\/2009\/08\/invictus-movie.html\">movie directed by Clint Eastwood &#8212; Invictus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><embed width=\"480\" height=\"370\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trailerspy.com\/nvplayer.swf?config=http:\/\/www.trailerspy.com\/nuevo\/econfig.php?key=fb8fc590434f5d933c92\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book when it came out. It&#8217;s a good read and a good window into post-apartheid South Africa and the World Cup rugby final that united a nation. Now it is being made into a movie directed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12351\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,19675,19674,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood","category-rugby","category-south-africa","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}