{"id":5264,"date":"2025-05-16T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:20:18","slug":"this-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"This Mother\u2019s Day, Let\u2019s Show Love That Lasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mother\u2019s Day is a time to say thank you to our mothers. We are thanking them for the love, strength and care that they give every single day. From sleepless nights when we were young and encouragement they give us as adults, a mother\u2019s love shapes who we are in ways we can never fully explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This day is also a moment to remember and honour mothers who are no longer with us. We carry their love in our hearts and many families take time to visit their resting places, share stories, or light candles in their memory. These acts help us feel close to them, even though they are gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flowers and gifts are always nice but the most meaningful ways to show love come through care and planning for the future. One of the kindest things we can do is to protect our families from financial stress during difficult times. Having a funeral plan in place may not seem like a loving gesture at first, but it truly is. It helps make sure that, when the time comes, your mother\u2019s life is honoured with dignity and those left behind aren\u2019t left with financial worries. With 21st Century Funeral Services, families have the peace of mind knowing that they are supported by a trusted service provider that is committed to honouring lives with dignity and care. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/burial-service\/\">funeral plans<\/a> are affordable and made to suit different needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Mother\u2019s Day, as you celebrate the women who gave you everything, think about what you can give in return: peace of mind, protection and a plan for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother\u2019s Day is a time to say thank you to our mothers. We are thanking them for the love, strength and care that they give every single day. From sleepless nights when we were young and encouragement they give us as adults, a mother\u2019s love shapes who we are in ways we can never fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Mother\u2019s Day, Let\u2019s Show Love That Lasts - 21st Century Funerals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mother\u2019s Day is a time to say thank you to our mothers. We are thanking them for the love, strength and care that they give every single day.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Mother\u2019s Day, Let\u2019s Show Love That Lasts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mother\u2019s Day is a time to say thank you to our mothers. We are thanking them for the love, strength and care that they give every single day.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"21st Century Funerals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/21STCENTURYFUNERALS\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-16T14:19:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-02T13:20:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-16-at-16.18.02.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1275\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mthobisi Ngubane\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mthobisi Ngubane\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"This Mother\u2019s Day, Let\u2019s Show Love That Lasts - 21st Century Funerals","description":"Mother\u2019s Day is a time to say thank you to our mothers. We are thanking them for the love, strength and care that they give every single day.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"This Mother\u2019s Day, Let\u2019s Show Love That Lasts","og_description":"Mother\u2019s Day is a time to say thank you to our mothers. We are thanking them for the love, strength and care that they give every single day.","og_url":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/","og_site_name":"21st Century Funerals","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/21STCENTURYFUNERALS\/","article_published_time":"2025-05-16T14:19:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-07-02T13:20:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1275,"height":1280,"url":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-16-at-16.18.02.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mthobisi Ngubane","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mthobisi Ngubane","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/"},"author":{"name":"Mthobisi Ngubane","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/c95a73190b08206cae0af8135ebdfa95"},"headline":"This Mother\u2019s Day, Let\u2019s Show Love That Lasts","datePublished":"2025-05-16T14:19:33+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-02T13:20:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/"},"wordCount":283,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-16-at-16.18.02.jpeg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/","url":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/","name":"This Mother\u2019s Day, Let\u2019s Show Love That Lasts - 21st Century Funerals","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-16-at-16.18.02.jpeg","datePublished":"2025-05-16T14:19:33+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-02T13:20:18+00:00","description":"Mother\u2019s Day is a time to say thank you to our mothers. We are thanking them for the love, strength and care that they give every single day.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-16-at-16.18.02.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-16-at-16.18.02.jpeg","width":1275,"height":1280},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/this-mothers-day\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"This Mother\u2019s Day, Let\u2019s Show Love That Lasts"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#website","url":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/","name":"21st Century Funerals","description":"Professional Funeral Services","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#organization","name":"21st Century Funerals","url":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cropped-21st-Century-Funerals-Durban-logo-300x300-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cropped-21st-Century-Funerals-Durban-logo-300x300-1.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"21st Century Funerals"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/21STCENTURYFUNERALS\/","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@21stcentury_funerals"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/c95a73190b08206cae0af8135ebdfa95","name":"Mthobisi Ngubane","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/71b9975f2c8d47c4663bdadb923a69ff11b415437aedb8c4ac9b7478df6c5d99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/71b9975f2c8d47c4663bdadb923a69ff11b415437aedb8c4ac9b7478df6c5d99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mthobisi Ngubane"},"url":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/author\/mthobisi\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-16-at-16.18.02.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5266,"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions\/5266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcfs.co.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}