{"id":27908,"date":"2018-04-19T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T20:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27908"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T20:19:53","slug":"eswatini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27908","title":{"rendered":"eSwatini"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-43821512\">King Mswati III<\/a> of Swaziland announced on Wednesday that he was renaming the country \"the Kingdom of eSwatini\".<\/p>\n<p>The monarch announced the official change in a stadium during celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Swazi independence.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations also marked the king's 50th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The new name, eSwatini, means \"land of the Swazis\". The change was unexpected, but King Mswati has been referring to Swaziland for years as eSwatini.<\/p>\n<p>It was the name the king used when he addressed the UN general assembly in 2017 and at the state opening of the country's parliament in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the name had caused some confusion, saying: \"Whenever we go abroad, people refer to us as Switzerland.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Mswati III of Swaziland announced on Wednesday that he was renaming the country \"the Kingdom of eSwatini\". The monarch announced the official change in a stadium during celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Swazi independence. The celebrations also marked the king's 50th birthday. The new name, eSwatini, means \"land of the Swazis\". The change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27909,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27908\/revisions\/27909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}