{"id":1383,"date":"2012-08-23T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2018-08-24T05:13:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:13:40","slug":"this-is-not-limpopo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"This is not Limpopo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22339 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ElsenburgCommunityHallBooksonFloor-Aug2012-765x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"817\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ElsenburgCommunityHallBooksonFloor-Aug2012-765x1024.jpg 765w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ElsenburgCommunityHallBooksonFloor-Aug2012-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ElsenburgCommunityHallBooksonFloor-Aug2012-768x1028.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ElsenburgCommunityHallBooksonFloor-Aug2012.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is not Limpopo<\/p>\n<p>This is not Limpopo<br \/>\nWH Auden in ashes<br \/>\namongst other books<br \/>\nout Elsenburg way<\/p>\n<p>This is not Limpopo<br \/>\na municipal hall burnt<br \/>\ninside almost beyond<br \/>\nhuman recognition<\/p>\n<p>Crude obscenities<br \/>\nmark the walls<br \/>\nwhat beasts here<br \/>\ndid 1994 come<br \/>\nand go too quickly<\/p>\n<p>This is not Limpopo<br \/>\nsmouldering rags<br \/>\ntorn out pages of books<br \/>\non the blackened floor<br \/>\nof a community resource<\/p>\n<p>This is not Limpopo<br \/>\nthough two worlds here<br \/>\nscenic slopes and dales<br \/>\nlodgings Dickensian<br \/>\nand work seasonal<\/p>\n<p>(A pristine building<br \/>\nup yonder, on a hill<br \/>\nseemingly far away<br \/>\ncomfortably numb)<\/p>\n<p>This is not Limpopo<br \/>\nthough a text book case<br \/>\nof something unfulfilled<br \/>\na number of youngsters keen<br \/>\ndespite all the odds against<\/p>\n<p>Politicians not yet<br \/>\nkissing-baby election time<br \/>\ndevelopment planning<br \/>\nUhuru not yet Elsenburg way<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Out yonder in the not-so-picturesque rural quiet of Muldersvlei-Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa, the week of August 14-16 2012.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo of the Elsenburg Community Hall provided by the author.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not Limpopo This is not Limpopo WH Auden in ashes amongst other books out Elsenburg way This is not Limpopo a municipal hall burnt inside almost beyond human recognition Crude obscenities mark the walls what beasts here did 1994 come and go too quickly This is not Limpopo smouldering rags torn out pages [&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":[5244,731,1707,5243,83,732],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-books","tag-david-kapp","tag-elsenburg","tag-limpopo","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","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=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22340,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/22340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}