{"id":23147,"date":"2019-06-26T01:10:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23147"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:46:36","slug":"welcome-at-last-to-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23147","title":{"rendered":"Welcome at last to the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"640\" class=\"wp-image-25024 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcome-at-last-to-the-21st-century.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcome-at-last-to-the-21st-century.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcome-at-last-to-the-21st-century-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcome-at-last-to-the-21st-century-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Welcome at last to the 21st century<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so wrote a colleague-past<br \/>at my reportage of now<br \/>having one of those devices<br \/>you see folks walking\u00a0<br \/>into stationary poles with<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">is it any good<br \/>I enquire<br \/>as it seems<br \/>I have not been<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hear there is<br \/>running water<br \/>electricity even<br \/>and plentiful<br \/>(so politicians say)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome at last to the 21st century<br \/>where you can see<br \/>hunger on a world scale<br \/>from local Bonteheuwel<br \/>to the beyonds of Syria<br \/>and darkest Africa too\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the 21st century<br \/>where humanity<br \/>behaves as though<br \/>there is another<br \/>planet to go and ruin<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the 21st century<br \/>where women<br \/>and children too<br \/>would want there\u00a0<br \/>to be another planet<br \/>to shelter from the storm<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">there is illiteracy<br \/>and innumeracy too<br \/>on this man-trashed sphere<br \/>most especially down here<br \/>Africa South way<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome at last to the 21st century<\/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:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2018-08-29-standing-up-for-bonteheuwel-we-did-in-1976-and-we-will-do-it-now\">Mail &amp; Guardian<\/a> \/ David Harrison)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome at last to the 21st century so wrote a colleague-pastat my reportage of nowhaving one of those devicesyou see folks walking\u00a0into stationary poles with is it any goodI enquireas it seemsI have not been I hear there isrunning waterelectricity evenand plentiful(so politicians say) Welcome at last to the 21st centurywhere you can seehunger on [&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":[731,83,732],"class_list":["post-23147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147","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=23147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26241,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147\/revisions\/26241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}