{"id":367,"date":"2010-11-12T02:10:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T12:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=367"},"modified":"2011-05-29T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T16:05:12","slug":"heart-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2010\/11\/12\/heart-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_368\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Heart_of_Darkness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-368\" title=\"Heart_of_Darkness\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Heart_of_Darkness-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heart of Darkness<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Heart of Darkness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 12, 2010<\/p>\n<p>A griot woman, robes and calabash flowing in the air, takes the Persona into the heart of darkness. \u00a0Sogolon, Sunjata\u2019s mother. A dense jungle, a village in a clearing. A compound, a round, mud-brick hut.<\/p>\n<p>Raped and brutalized, bodies, and a refugee camp. Hutus and Tutsis, Rwandans and Ugandans, Congolese and many factions.<\/p>\n<p>A grieving, healing griot song, rings out above the human misery.<\/p>\n<p>Mbeku, the Flying Tortoise, lifts the Persona to skyland, back to the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Out of America, out of Africa, back to the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A griot woman, robes and calabash flowing in the air, takes the Persona into the heart of darkness.  Sogolon, Sunjata\u2019s mother. A dense jungle, a village in a clearing. A compound, a round, mud-brick hut. <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2010\/11\/12\/heart-of-darkness\/\">Continue reading <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":[185],"tags":[134,175,29,177,186,151,174,176,182,183],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic","tag-africa","tag-congo","tag-epic-poetry","tag-flying-tortoise","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-griot","tag-heart-of-darkness","tag-mbeku","tag-sogolon","tag-sunjata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}