{"id":23095,"date":"2019-06-16T06:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23095"},"modified":"2022-06-16T03:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T10:33:24","slug":"we-laugh-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23095","title":{"rendered":"(we) laugh it off"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/sites\/default\/files\/article_image\/YouthDay1_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(we) laugh it off<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we laugh it off<br \/>democratically<br \/>(even though<br \/>there was none<br \/>back there in 1976)<br \/><br \/>we laugh it off<br \/>myself and a folkie<br \/>a work colleague into\u00a0<br \/>Dylan Baez and Jim Croce\u00a0<br \/><br \/>June 1976 it was<br \/>circa the 16 and 17<br \/>a stay-away from work<br \/>(my first it was)<br \/><br \/>a manager fellow it was<br \/>(we are being genteel here<br \/>as he was harsher labelled)<br \/>suggesting we get<br \/>a police escort to work<br \/><br \/>we laugh it off<br \/>explaining to him<br \/>that they oversaw<br \/>apartheid and the like<br \/><br \/>(in the name of law and order<br \/>keeping us safe from the red peril<br \/>keeping us safe from the yellow peril\u00a0<br \/>keeping us safe from the swart gevaar)<br \/><br \/>June 1976<br \/>the Soweto uprising<br \/>the Soweto student rebellion<br \/>(there are those who<br \/>called the event a riot)<br \/><br \/>many exiled in its wake<br \/>before and after<br \/><br \/>Youth does it matter\u00a0<br \/>to you today<br \/>what this political holiday<br \/>was all about<br \/><br \/>Will it make tomorrow<br \/>any the better if you did<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/topic\/western-cape-youth-uprising-timeline-1976\">South African History Online<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(we) laugh it off we laugh it offdemocratically(even thoughthere was noneback there in 1976) we laugh it offmyself and a folkiea work colleague into\u00a0Dylan Baez and Jim Croce\u00a0 June 1976 it wascirca the 16 and 17a stay-away from work(my first it was) a manager fellow it was(we are being genteel hereas he was harsher labelled)suggesting [&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":[731,83,6375],"class_list":["post-23095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-south-africa","tag-soweto-uprising","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095","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=23095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26202,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095\/revisions\/26202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}