{"id":21848,"date":"2020-06-05T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=21848"},"modified":"2020-06-05T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:53:34","slug":"monday-marked-19-years-since-the-death-of-child-aids-activist-nkosi-johnson-the-woman-he-called-mom-was-at-the-forefront-of-the-fight-from-the-beginning-and-is-still-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/monday-marked-19-years-since-the-death-of-child-aids-activist-nkosi-johnson-the-woman-he-called-mom-was-at-the-forefront-of-the-fight-from-the-beginning-and-is-still-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday marked 19 years since the death of child AIDS activist Nkosi Johnson. The woman he called mom was at the forefront of the fight from the beginning \u2013 and is still there."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21849\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GailJohnson-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GailJohnson-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GailJohnson-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GailJohnson-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GailJohnson-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GailJohnson-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GailJohnson.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Harley in the garage would be nice, maybe also a bank balance that didn\u2019t hover so close to red, but Gail Johnson just laughs these days about her \u201ccould-have-been\u201d life.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-06-05-gail-johnson-is-still-around-to-remind-us-that-south-africa-has-the-highest-number-of-hiv-positive-people-in-the-world\/#gsc.tab=0\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Harley in the garage would be nice, maybe also a bank balance that didn\u2019t hover so close to red, but Gail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hiv-2"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GailJohnson.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21850,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions\/21850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}