{"id":191,"date":"2007-03-24T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T13:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2007-03-24T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T13:34:17","slug":"cape-town-so-africa-one-last-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town, So. Africa: One Last Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/424892203\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/163\/424892203_6a1304d9d9.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My last activity in Cape Town was a poignant one. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/424892172\/\" target=\"_blank\">One of my favorite students<\/a> organized a Middle Passage ceremony to remember and pay homage to the\u00c2\u00a0enslaved Africans who lost their lives during the passage from Africa to the Americas.<\/div>\n<p>Sunset, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/424892115\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daisies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/424892080\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friends<\/a>. We each said our own private prayers, then public words, and set our flowers adrift. Our feet on African soil for a final few minutes. I can&#8217;t think of a better way to have ended my time in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 My last activity in Cape Town was a poignant one. One of my favorite students organized a Middle Passage ceremony to remember and pay homage to the\u00c2\u00a0enslaved Africans who lost their lives during the passage from Africa to the Americas. Sunset, Daisies, Friends. We each said our own private prayers, then public words, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cape Town, So. Africa: One Last Thing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-stories","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}