{"id":837,"date":"2011-03-26T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=837"},"modified":"2016-03-26T07:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T14:09:52","slug":"that%e2%80%99s-how-i-got-caught-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s how I got caught on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>That\u2019s how I got caught on it<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>(an ode to Crystal, not the meth)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how I got caught on it<br \/>\nnot the Cape\u2019s drug of choice\u2019<br \/>\n<em>tik<\/em> \u2013 methamphetamine \u2013<br \/>\nsays Bonteheuwels\u2019 Crystal Cupido<br \/>\nUWC Lifelong Learning Award Winner<\/p>\n<p>Crystal, not the meth<br \/>\nmany of us are hooked on<br \/>\ngetting high on the drug<br \/>\nand not on the everyday of life<\/p>\n<p>Getting high she did<br \/>\nat the tender age of 6<br \/>\n(courtesy of her mother)<br \/>\non Bront\u00e9\u2019s Wuthering Heights<br \/>\nand other such pleasures<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how I got caught on it<br \/>\nliterature from long ago<br \/>\nmade her want to study English<br \/>\nthough she faltered at Grade 12<\/p>\n<p>Crystal, not the meth<br \/>\nfrom out Bonteheuwel way<br \/>\nwhere news is habitually bad<br \/>\n(the area once a liberated zone)<\/p>\n<p>She is high on literature<br \/>\ngot her chance at UWC when<br \/>\nlots of people closed their doors<br \/>\n(she determined like never before)<\/p>\n<p>So while tik has made it<br \/>\nruining the lives of many<br \/>\nmight Crystal\u2019s perseverance<br \/>\nmake it in yours<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrystal\u2019s resolve has life lessons for all\u201d (Athlone News, March 23 2011)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s how I got caught on it (an ode to Crystal, not the meth) That\u2019s how I got caught on it not the Cape\u2019s drug of choice\u2019 tik \u2013 methamphetamine \u2013 says Bonteheuwels\u2019 Crystal Cupido UWC Lifelong Learning Award Winner Crystal, not the meth many of us are hooked on getting high on the drug [&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":[968,963,731,5066,965,967,83,732,966,964],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bonteheuwel","tag-crystal-cupido","tag-david-kapp","tag-education","tag-lifelong-learning","tag-methamphetamine","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","tag-tik","tag-uwc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19919,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/19919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}