{"id":453,"date":"2013-05-13T12:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=453"},"modified":"2021-12-06T19:32:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:32:25","slug":"what-are-you-wearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2013\/05\/13\/what-are-you-wearing\/","title":{"rendered":"What are you wearing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I bought this necklace while I was in another West African country and wore it for the first time a week ago. But I was surprised to find out that here it wasn’t seen as a necklace. I had two different people question me about it, thinking that it was something else. This \u201csomething else\u201d doesn’t have a name in English and doesn’t exist in my American world. It looks like this necklace, but is worn around a girl\u2019s waist, under her clothes. I was told that it used to be used as a fetish, or good luck charm, and some people still wear it for that reason. But I know that at least some Christian girls wear it as well, and I was told that that was just to look pretty. (I know what you\u2019re thinking \u2013 how does it look pretty when it\u2019s under the clothes of even little girls and no one is supposed to see it. I don\u2019t know the answer.) Whether the Christian girls do just wear it to look pretty or whether they still believe that it gives some kind of good luck, I don\u2019t know. I do know that I\u2019m not planning on wearing that necklace again in My Country, at least not any time soon.<\/p>\n

As you can see, I’ve been learning more culture and language since I’ve been back here. Last Wednesday I also learned the significance of blinking. If someone is saying something or doing something and you don\u2019t agree, you can look at someone else and blink at each other. That means that you both agree that you don\u2019t agree with the person or really care what she\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought this necklace while I was in another West African country and wore it for the first time a week ago. But I was surprised to find out that here it wasn’t seen as a necklace. I had two different people question me about it, thinking that it was something else. This \u201csomething else\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}