{"id":26980,"date":"2023-03-17T19:17:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=26980"},"modified":"2023-03-18T04:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T11:43:54","slug":"someone-died-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=26980","title":{"rendered":"Someone died today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Someone died today
\nJust round the corner at the small Woolworths mall in Klipfontein road
\nMost likely others died too
\nat the hand of some sordid human feud
\nBlooding the ground with futility
\nNot far away from here, not for any good reason<\/p>\n

Some died today
\nnot someone I know
\nI don’t know what she looked like
\nI don’t know her name
\nI don’t know her story<\/p>\n

She died because someone decided to make a choice
\nThey made a choice to use a firearm in a public space
\nThey decided their outrage, their anger, their pain
\nwas the only thing that mattered
\nAnd there she was in the crossfire
\nMeddling in the moment, her body simply moving as it always did, going about her business
\nno connection, no relation to the human holding the firearm
\nSending a bullet meant for some other body<\/p>\n

There was just that one fatality, I heard
\nAnd yet there were more today
\nI know this
\nbecause every day there are someones dying
\nfor no good reason
\nfor no good cause – as if there ever is
\nEvery day somewhere there’s a mind failing itself, a heart strange to its own humanity<\/p>\n

They die in violence
\nbecause we count the unimportant
\nwe plague spaces with a presence devoid of love
\nEvery day we fail our own humanity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(By Khadija Tracey Carmelita Heeger)<\/div>\n
(Image Credit: Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe: “Remember Me” \/ Revisions<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone died today Just round the corner at the small Woolworths mall in Klipfontein road Most likely others died too at the hand of some sordid human feud Blooding the ground with futility Not far away from here, not for any good reason Some died today not someone I know I don’t know what she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[139,6749,83],"class_list":["post-26980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cape-town","tag-khadija-tracey-carmelita-heeger","tag-south-africa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26980"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26993,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980\/revisions\/26993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}