{"id":264,"date":"2009-05-08T11:56:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2009-05-08T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T16:09:22","slug":"elderism-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author of &#8220;Things Fall Apart,&#8221; in an essay in the\u00a0 new<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gods-Soldiers-Penguin-Anthology-Contemporary\/dp\/0143114735\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1241797742&amp;sr=8-1\"> &#8220;Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing,&#8221;<\/a> edited by Rob Spillman:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Of course there are areas of Africa where colonialism divided up a single ethnic group among two or even three powers. But on the whole it did bring together many peoples that had hitherto gone their several ways. And it gave them a language with which to talk to one another. If it failed to give them a song, it at least gave them a tongue, for sighing.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author of &#8220;Things Fall Apart,&#8221; in an essay in the\u00a0 new &#8220;Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing,&#8221; edited by Rob Spillman: &#8220;Of course there are areas of Africa where colonialism divided up a single ethnic group among two or even three powers. But on the whole it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}