{"id":932,"date":"2016-05-24T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=932"},"modified":"2019-01-22T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:14:43","slug":"bubble-gum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2016\/05\/24\/bubble-gum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubble gum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I spent the day in our people group, visiting two new villages and stopping at a wedding on the way home. In many ways, the wedding reminded me of a wedding of a main world religion here in the city &#8211; dancing to the music of the balafone (like a xylophone). But there was one thing that was new &#8211; bubble gum.<\/p>\n<p>At different points in time during the dancing, someone would take a handful of bubble gum and throw it into the air, then the kids nearby and the ladies dancing would hurry to pick up a piece. It reminded me of a parade! And when I joined the dance, someone must have been excited that a white person joined in, since she handed me two pieces of bubble gum. Just think &#8211; I&#8217;m worth two pieces of bubble gum! I think I like this new tradition. Bubble gum is much yummier than a lot of other things that they could hand out. And it&#8217;s fun to have feel like you&#8217;re in a parade in the middle of a wedding dance, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/?attachment_id=24760\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24760\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/files\/2016\/05\/20160520_144203-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--Posted by Email--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I spent the day in our people group, visiting two new villages and stopping at a wedding on the way home. In many ways, the wedding reminded me of a wedding of a main world religion here in the city &#8211; dancing to the music of the balafone (like a xylophone). But there [&hellip;]<\/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-932","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\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}