{"id":248,"date":"2013-12-06T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2013-12-06T17:03:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:03:42","slug":"the-final-form-of-love-is-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"“The final form of love is forgiveness”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAs I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn\u2019t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I\u2019d still be in prison,\u201d \u2013 Nelson Mandela, proof that the final form of love is forgiveness.<\/p>\n

\"Nelson<\/a><\/p>\n

(About the New Yorker cover: The cover is entitled, \u201cMadiba,\u201d Mandela’s tribal name, and is the artwork of author and artist Kadir Nelson. Nelson, who has illustrated a children’s book on Mandela, told the New Yorker that he drew this cover to reflect a young Mandela “during the time that he was on trial with over a hundred of his comrades.”<\/p>\n

“I wanted to make a simple and bold statement about Mandela and his life as a freedom fighter,” he said. “The raised fist and the simple, stark palette reminded me of posters and anti-apartheid imagery of the nineteen-eighties. This painting is a tribute to the struggle for freedom from all forms of discrimination, and Nelson\u2019s very prominent role as a leader in the anti-apartheid movement.\u201d — Thanks to the Huffington Post)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAs I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn\u2019t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I\u2019d still be in prison,\u201d \u2013 Nelson Mandela, proof that the final form of love is forgiveness. (About the New Yorker cover: The cover is entitled, \u201cMadiba,\u201d Mandela’s tribal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phpFj8-40","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynn-knight-writer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}