{"id":76566,"date":"2025-06-19T19:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76566"},"modified":"2025-06-19T19:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:21:42","slug":"south-africa-declares-state-of-disaster-following-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/south-africa-declares-state-of-disaster-following-severe-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa declares state of disaster following severe weather"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1H2uwU.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Rescue workers transport a person in a body bag after floods in Mthatha, South Africa, 12 June 2025\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Africa declared a national disaster on Thursday following severe weather in several parts of the country last week.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/south-africa-declares-state-of-disaster-following-severe-weather\/ar-AA1H2BsS?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=0caefb54eb1144e5957ffb6264ad0b84&amp;ei=35\"> Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/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>South Africa declared a national disaster on Thursday following severe weather in several parts of the country last week.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/flood-South-Africa.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76566","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=76566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76567,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76566\/revisions\/76567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}