{"id":16128,"date":"2014-11-23T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T18:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=16128"},"modified":"2022-11-22T19:40:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T02:40:25","slug":"love-is-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=16128","title":{"rendered":"Love is all around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26649 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Love-is-all-around-Whizz--1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Love-is-all-around-Whizz--1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Love-is-all-around-Whizz--300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Love-is-all-around-Whizz--768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Love-is-all-around-Whizz-.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Love is all around<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love is all around<br \/>\nis my lyrical response<br \/>\nto a Vukani letter-writer<br \/>\nfrom out yonder KTC<\/p>\n<p>Where is love<br \/>\nin the townships<br \/>\nis the question asked<br \/>\n(amidst partying and drinking<br \/>\nround our social grant days)<\/p>\n<p>Love is all around<br \/>\nI declare as I ramble<br \/>\nin and about Site C Khayelitsha<\/p>\n<p>A bustling Saturday morning<br \/>\ndown Govan Mbeki Road<br \/>\nto the Whizz ICT Centre<br \/>\nfor their Youth Centre Launch<br \/>\nand an end-user computer Graduation<\/p>\n<p>(them a small light of hope<br \/>\nall about community sustainability<br \/>\nin a place overshadowed)<\/p>\n<p>Love is all around (too)<br \/>\nat the Moses Mabhida Library<br \/>\nwhere I\u2019ve been before<br \/>\nfor a Reading Competition<br \/>\n(fall in love with learning<br \/>\nsays a mural on their wall)<\/p>\n<p>Love is all around<br \/>\n5 happy earthly hours I spend<br \/>\n(language notwithstanding)<br \/>\nas the Youth Centre is launched<br \/>\nand students joyously graduate<\/p>\n<p>Love is all around<\/p>\n<p>What stops you<br \/>\nfrom making it so too<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is love in the townships?\u201d (<em>Letters<\/em>, Vukani community paper, October 30 2014)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/whizzictcentre.co.za\/what-we-do\/end-user-computer-training\/\">Whizz ICT Centre<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Love is all around Love is all around is my lyrical response to a Vukani letter-writer from out yonder KTC Where is love in the townships is the question asked (amidst partying and drinking round our social grant days) Love is all around I declare as I ramble in and about Site C Khayelitsha [&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":[139,731,4419,83,732,4418],"class_list":["post-16128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cape-town","tag-david-kapp","tag-moses-mabhida-library","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","tag-whizz-ict-centre","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128","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=16128"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26650,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128\/revisions\/26650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}