{"id":19569,"date":"2014-05-28T06:56:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T11:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19569"},"modified":"2014-05-28T06:57:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T11:57:45","slug":"the-motherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19569","title":{"rendered":"The Motherland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am part of a group of girls who meet to watch episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/anafricancity.tv\" target=\"_blank\">An African City<\/a> &#8211; a sort of Sex and the City set in Ghana. Our next event is coming soon and I&#8217;m already trying to figure out what to wear since everyone else came with such glorious outfits last time. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about Africa, about visiting with Tin, about Senegal where his ancestors might have come from since every Senegalese we meet says so. <\/p>\n<p>For our evening, we make African dishes and wear African dress complete with head wraps and jewelry. I&#8217;m wondering if Nicole Amarteifio, the Creator of &#8216;An African City&#8217; will in any way touch on politics, like the kidnapping of the Nigerian girls and the global public outcry?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10392430_10203929348377416_110705284753615880_n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19570\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=19570\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10392430_10203929348377416_110705284753615880_n.jpg?fit=500%2C597\" data-orig-size=\"500,597\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"10392430_10203929348377416_110705284753615880_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10392430_10203929348377416_110705284753615880_n.jpg?fit=500%2C597\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10392430_10203929348377416_110705284753615880_n.jpg?resize=500%2C597\" alt=\"10392430_10203929348377416_110705284753615880_n\" width=\"500\" height=\"597\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10392430_10203929348377416_110705284753615880_n.jpg?w=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10392430_10203929348377416_110705284753615880_n.jpg?resize=251%2C300 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#bringbackourgirls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am part of a group of girls who meet to watch episodes of An African City &#8211; a sort of Sex and the City set in Ghana. Our next event is coming soon and I&#8217;m already trying to figure out what to wear since everyone else came with such glorious outfits last time. I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about Africa, about visiting with Tin, about Senegal where his ancestors might have come from since&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-55D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19572,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19569\/revisions\/19572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}