{"id":2773,"date":"2018-04-19T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2020-01-28T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:56:22","slug":"swaziland-king-renames-country-kingdom-of-eswatini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"Swaziland king renames country Kingdom of eSwatini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-entry-body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/19\/swaziland-king-renames-country-kingdom-of-eswatini?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">According to an article in The Guardian dated 19 April 2018<\/a>, King Mswati III announced that Swaziland has reverted its name to the Kingdom of eSwatini (meaning \u201cplace of the Swazi\u201d) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its independence from Britain. Time will tell what name will appear on future banknote issues.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Mark Irwin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in The Guardian dated 19 April 2018, King Mswati III announced that Swaziland has reverted its name to the Kingdom of eSwatini (meaning \u201cplace of the Swazi\u201d) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its independence from Britain. Time will tell what name will appear on future<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=2773\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[161],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa","tag-swaziland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27678,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/27678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}