{"id":5934,"date":"2019-07-16T20:16:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T18:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:06:33","slug":"maropeng-for-this-exclusive-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/maropeng-for-this-exclusive-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Come to the Cradle of Humankind for this exclusive Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Come and find out where it all began.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>90 minutes from Johannesburg city centre is the Cradle of Humankind. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/heritage-day-lunch\/\">heritage<\/a> site offers you a chance to learn about the stones and bones of the past \u2013 it holds 40% of the worlds fossils &#8211; as well as partake in adrenaline junkie activities, discover wildlife, wine and dine and even have a beautiful wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Come to the Maropeng Boutique Hotel at the Cradle of Humankind on Saturday 24 August from 09:30-12:30 to hear from award-winning environmentalist, Vincent Carrthers, who will be launching his compelling book about the history of this site. The book will provide clear evidence of our origins in the Cradle of Humankind with fresh insight gained from leading scientists and researchers. Prof Amanda Esterhuysen from Wits and Marion West from HartRAO will also speak. The event takes place during the 2019 Magalies Rocks the Cradle Festival. Books will be on sale at the event.<\/p>\n<p>To book, email: tiisetsom@maropeng.co.za and copy denise@thesaccm.org.za \u00a0or call: 082 497 2722 today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5943\" src=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maropeng.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maropeng.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maropeng-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maropeng-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maropeng-192x108.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maropeng-561x312.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maropeng-364x202.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maropeng-758x421.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maropeng-608x338.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Directions to Cradle of Humankind<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hekpoort road<br \/>\nSterkfontein<br \/>\nMagaliesberg<br \/>\n014\u00a0577 9100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come and find out where it all began. 90 minutes from Johannesburg city centre is the Cradle of Humankind. This heritage site offers you a chance to learn about the stones and bones of the past \u2013 it holds 40% of the worlds fossils &#8211; as well as partake in adrenaline junkie activities, discover wildlife,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7383,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/7383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}