{"id":252,"date":"2006-02-21T08:12:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T07:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/21\/the-smells-and-sights-and-sounds\/"},"modified":"2006-02-21T08:12:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T07:12:37","slug":"the-smells-and-sights-and-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/the-smells-and-sights-and-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"the smells and sights and sounds&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>quote from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/boldtype\/0303\/fuller\/interview.html\">an interview with Alexandra Fulle<\/a>r:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am not sentimental about Africa as a place of memories &mdash; and I use the word &#8216;Africa&#8217;, knowing that I speak of only a tiny fraction of the continent &mdash; so for me, I am not stirred up with old emotions when I go home. When I get off the airplane in Lusaka, I feel at home. The smells and sights and sounds of the part of Africa that I come from are not memories, but a continuing reality. This is what is familiar to me.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>quote from an interview with Alexandra Fuller: I am not sentimental about Africa as a place of memories &mdash; and I use the word &#8216;Africa&#8217;, knowing that I speak of only a tiny fraction of the continent &mdash; so for me, I am not stirred up with old emotions when I go home. When I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-44","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}