{"id":174,"date":"2004-02-09T10:25:18","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=174"},"modified":"2004-02-09T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T17:25:18","slug":"simple-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Simple Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swing dancing, even in a bad mood.  Sleeping in.  Cleaning house.  Chatting with my brother and sister.  Playing Cranium with friends old and new.  Cameroon Telecom&#8217;s voicemail system.  The look in someone&#8217;s eyes after baptism.  <i>Moses \/ way out in the wilderness \/ sssaw sssome sssmoke \/ came to the bush . . . and the bush was burning.<\/i>  A pretty girl&#8217;s smile.  Matrix multiplication.  A fat new book.  Dreams of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swing dancing, even in a bad mood. Sleeping in. Cleaning house. Chatting with my brother and sister. Playing Cranium with friends old and new. Cameroon Telecom&#8217;s voicemail system. The look in someone&#8217;s eyes after baptism. Moses \/ way out in the wilderness \/ sssaw sssome sssmoke \/ came to the bush . . . and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simple Gifts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}