{"id":1297,"date":"2012-05-28T05:17:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2017-05-28T04:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T11:42:39","slug":"the-picture-we-paint-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"The picture we paint (over)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-picture-we-paint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18754 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-picture-we-paint-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The picture we paint\" width=\"571\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-picture-we-paint-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-picture-we-paint-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The picture we paint (over)<\/p>\n<p>The picture we paint (over)<br \/>\nthat which we differ with<br \/>\ncivilized as we are right<br \/>\nhere in Africa down South<\/p>\n<p>The picture we paint (over)<br \/>\ndid liberation before education<br \/>\nbeget us a begging bowl nation<\/p>\n<p>(drawers of water and hewers<br \/>\nof wood Verwoerd-style as<br \/>\napartheid so cruelly intended)<\/p>\n<p>The picture we paint (over)<br \/>\na nation-state of book-burners<br \/>\ndisrupters of (school) learning<br \/>\n(we harm African nationals too)<\/p>\n<p>(call back the not-too-distant past<br \/>\nof Nazi Germany, Stalin\u2019s Russia<br \/>\nnot to mention Pinochet\u2019s Chile<br \/>\nand other US-sponsored despots)<\/p>\n<p>Nearby there is a demand<br \/>\nto stone a human being to death<br \/>\nin these bigoted post-1994 times<\/p>\n<p>The picture we paint (over)<br \/>\nall things being equal before<br \/>\nfor all the world to see<br \/>\nall but own ourselves<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZuma painting\u2019s an attempt at satire, says Brett Murray (Cape Times, May 22 2012); whilst his work is defaced (ETV 7pm E-News), and a group faithfully calls for him to be done in (SAFM 11pm news) \u2013 all in one evening\u2019s sitting<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credit: iol.co.za)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture we paint (over) The picture we paint (over) that which we differ with civilized as we are right here in Africa down South The picture we paint (over) did liberation before education beget us a begging bowl nation (drawers of water and hewers of wood Verwoerd-style as apartheid so cruelly intended) The picture [&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],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-south-africa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","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=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21287,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/21287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}