{"id":21883,"date":"2017-12-11T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=21883"},"modified":"2017-12-11T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:24:08","slug":"things-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=21883","title":{"rendered":"Things fall(ing) apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1502\/1784\/400\/boystown001_small.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Things fall(ing) apart<\/p>\n<p>It can only happen<br \/>\nwhere there are<br \/>\nno Bikos or Ch\u00e9s<br \/>\nno Harons Sobukwes<br \/>\nTimols or Mandelas even<\/p>\n<p>It can only happen (here)<br \/>\ndown South where women<br \/>\nand children are abused<br \/>\nritually regardless<\/p>\n<p>Out Heideveld way<br \/>\nwhere chess is in<br \/>\nat the local library<br \/>\nand a chess competition<br \/>\nacclaims young minds<\/p>\n<p>Out Heideveld way<br \/>\nwhere some celebrate<br \/>\ntheir title deeds whilst<br \/>\nothers decry and deny<br \/>\nthe charges of the usual<br \/>\ncorruption and incompetence<\/p>\n<p>Houses falling apart<br \/>\na metaphor for all<br \/>\nthat is dark out there<br \/>\non the Cape Flats<br \/>\n(where the city works)<\/p>\n<p>Houses falling apart<br \/>\nout in Africa in the<br \/>\nThird World in the<br \/>\nundeveloped and<br \/>\nunderdeveloped<br \/>\nend of our polluted planet<\/p>\n<p>Houses for All was<br \/>\nonce a slogan<\/p>\n<p>now it is<br \/>\nHouses falling apart<\/p>\n<p>Houses \u2018falling apart\u2019 (Athlone News, December 6 2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/houseit.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/cape-town-day-of-action-for-housing.html\">HouseIt<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things fall(ing) apart It can only happen where there are no Bikos or Ch\u00e9s no Harons Sobukwes Timols or Mandelas even It can only happen (here) down South where women and children are abused ritually regardless Out Heideveld way where chess is in at the local library and a chess competition acclaims young minds 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":[139,731,6085,83,732],"class_list":["post-21883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cape-town","tag-david-kapp","tag-heideveld","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883","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=21883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21885,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883\/revisions\/21885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}