{"id":78,"date":"2005-08-28T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=78"},"modified":"2005-08-28T11:42:04","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T15:42:04","slug":"africa_the_last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/08\/africa_the_last\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa, the last frontier&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why the continent is so behind the ball and power and resources are so tightly controlled by a few? Here is an example:<br \/>\n<a title=\"CNN.com - Report: Swazi princess whipped for loud music - Aug 28, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/africa\/08\/28\/swazi.princess.reut\/index.html\">CNN.com &#8211; Report: Swazi princess whipped for loud music &#8211; Aug 28, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEZULWINI VALLEY, Swaziland (Reuters)  &#8212; The king of Swaziland&#8217;s daughter was whipped by a palace official at a party of teenage virgins ahead of a festival where more than 50,000 maidens are available to become her father&#8217;s 13th wife, media said on Sunday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elrey.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/archives\/elrey.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"342\" class=\"imagen\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Mind you, I&#8217;m all in favor of tradition, but, I&#8217;m more in favor of reason and logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why the continent is so behind the ball and power and resources are so tightly controlled by a few? Here is an example: CNN.com &#8211; Report: Swazi princess whipped for loud music &#8211; Aug 28, 2005 EZULWINI VALLEY, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/08\/africa_the_last\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}