{"id":1139,"date":"2011-12-21T07:36:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2022-12-21T04:58:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:58:26","slug":"the-world-is-a-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"The world is a ghetto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WAR-The-World-Is-a-Ghetto.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WAR-The-World-Is-a-Ghetto.jpeg 318w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WAR-The-World-Is-a-Ghetto-300x294.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe world is a ghetto<\/p>\n<p>The world is a ghetto<br \/>\nright up your very street<br \/>\nsoftball on a world scale<br \/>\nin little Belthorn Estate<br \/>\n(the local stadium filled)<\/p>\n<p>(A neighbour is aghast<br \/>\nat the non-coverage<br \/>\nof the 2-week-long event)<\/p>\n<p>The world is a ghetto<br \/>\nJunior Women\u2019s Softball<br \/>\na first in South Africa<br \/>\na first out Africa-way<br \/>\nhere on the Cape Flats<\/p>\n<p>The world is a ghetto<br \/>\nreportage in local papers<br \/>\nrestricted to group areas past<br \/>\n(is media self-censorship at work)<\/p>\n<p>World Championships<br \/>\nYoung Women<br \/>\nInternational Guests<\/p>\n<p>What additional tick-boxes<br \/>\ndo bureaucrats require<br \/>\npost-16 days of activism<br \/>\nof no violence against women and children<\/p>\n<p>No footballing galacticos here<br \/>\nspitting and cussing and<br \/>\nabusing women on the side<br \/>\n(it\u2019s just not cricket)<\/p>\n<p>(This little revolution<br \/>\nwill not be televised<br \/>\nnot newsworthy enough<br \/>\nfor the evening news)<\/p>\n<p>The world is a ghetto<br \/>\nThe global village is here<br \/>\nWhere are we????????<\/p>\n<p>The morning after (after I had teased a few Canadian softballers about drinking Canada Dry), a neighbour and I have an \u201cover the wall\u201d t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate, 18 December 2011; me with War and George Benson\u2019s old ditty \u201cThe World is a ghetto\u201d in mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is a ghetto The world is a ghetto right up your very street softball on a world scale in little Belthorn Estate (the local stadium filled) (A neighbour is aghast at the non-coverage of the 2-week-long event) The world is a ghetto Junior Women\u2019s Softball a first in South Africa a first out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[731,83,732,5085],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","tag-women","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26727,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/26727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}