{"id":22561,"date":"2018-12-28T10:05:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=22561"},"modified":"2022-12-27T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:13:46","slug":"what-are-you-worth-children-of-valhalla-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=22561","title":{"rendered":"What are you worth (children of Valhalla Park)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vocfm.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/valhallakids-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>What are you worth (children of Valhalla Park)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Valhalla \u2013 the palace of immortality<br \/>in Scandinavian mythology \u2013<br \/>where rests souls of heroes slain<br \/>and there are statues and the like\u00a0<br \/>to the memory of illustrious individuals<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>What are you worth<br \/>children of Valhalla Park\u00a0<br \/>(might some even say<br \/>children of a lesser)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I know folks out there\u00a0<br \/>a computer literate mother\u00a0<br \/>of many offspring who\u00a0<br \/>I\u2019ve not seen for a while<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>(how might they be<br \/>are they on the straight<br \/>and the narrow path<br \/>are they safe there)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>What are you worth<br \/>children of Valhalla Park\u00a0<br \/>and the immediate surrounds<br \/>of your fertile growing minds<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Are you worth more<br \/>or less than the biologically\u00a0<br \/>blue-eyed and blonde souls<br \/>wherever they find themselves<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Are you worth more<br \/>than your counterparts<br \/>in the Palestines Yemens Syrias<br \/>of our globalized earth-ghetto<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>(what of the girl-child<br \/>forever at the bottom\u00a0<br \/>of the feeding queue<br \/>voting fodder cannon fodder<br \/>for politicians and spokesmen)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>What are you worth<br \/>children of Valhalla Park\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>What are you worth children\u00a0<br \/>anywhere and everywhere<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Penned after a social media condemnation of the recent slaying of children in the area.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>(Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocfm.co.za\/three-arrested-12-questioned-for-valhalla-park-shooting\/\">Voice of the Cape<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you worth (children of Valhalla Park) Valhalla \u2013 the palace of immortalityin Scandinavian mythology \u2013where rests souls of heroes slainand there are statues and the like\u00a0to the memory of illustrious individuals What are you worthchildren of Valhalla Park\u00a0(might some even saychildren of a lesser) I know folks out there\u00a0a computer literate mother\u00a0of many [&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":[139,731,83,732,6298],"class_list":["post-22561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cape-town","tag-david-kapp","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","tag-valhalla-park","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561","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=22561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26759,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions\/26759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}