{"id":23998,"date":"2020-06-09T14:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23998"},"modified":"2022-06-08T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:53:48","slug":"still-many-rivers-to-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23998","title":{"rendered":"Still many rivers to cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2020\/06\/09\/16\/29406786-8402717-Removed_A_statue_of_Belgium_s_King_Leopold_II_responsible_for_co-a-1_1591717897436.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Still many rivers to cross<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>(with apologies to Jimmy Cliff)<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>Still many rivers to cross<br \/>for those whose language<br \/>includes words and phrases<br \/>the world has heard before<br \/><br \/>Riots and Rioters<br \/>Vandals and Vandalism<br \/>Terrorists and Terrorism<br \/>(Destruction of Property)<br \/><br \/>Did we here smile<br \/>a smile of Deja Vu<br \/>at images of that statue\u00a0taking a river-dive<br \/>(where else were there)<br \/><br \/>not just a statue\u00a0<br \/>but a symbol of it all<br \/>just as those uniforms\u00a0are <br \/>the planet over<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still many rivers to cross<br \/>will we find our way over<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>Television scenes of that piece of stone taking a dive, brought the 1969 Jimmy Cliff song to mind.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.inews.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/PRI_153995848-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\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 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8402717\/Statue-Belgiums-King-Leopold-II-removed-Antwerp.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>) (Photo Credit 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/uk\/edward-colston-statue-bristol-monument-pulled-down-historic-england-reinstated-440610\">INews<\/a> \/ PA)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still many rivers to cross\u00a0(with apologies to Jimmy Cliff) Still many rivers to crossfor those whose languageincludes words and phrasesthe world has heard before Riots and RiotersVandals and VandalismTerrorists and Terrorism(Destruction of Property) Did we here smilea smile of Deja Vuat images of that statue\u00a0taking a river-dive(where else were there) not just a statue\u00a0but a [&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":[6526,6524,5409,731,732],"class_list":["post-23998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-colstonhasfallen","tag-leopoldhasfallen","tag-rhodesmustfall","tag-david-kapp","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998","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=23998"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26167,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998\/revisions\/26167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}