{"id":33,"date":"2016-06-06T16:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2024-09-23T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:26:54","slug":"as-ye-sow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/as-ye-sow\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;As Ye Sow&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a saying, give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach him to fish and he has a life, or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Strikes me that &#8220;Western Society&#8221; has not only not taught<\/p>\n<p>others to fish, it has garnered the fish they might have caught on their own, and I use the word fish figuratively as well<\/p>\n<p>as literally.<\/p>\n<p>Take Africa for instance, initially colonized then abandoned<\/p>\n<p>yet raped to this day for it&#8217;s wealth. Can you blame people<\/p>\n<p>fleeing what they see as a sinking ship and making for<\/p>\n<p>Europe, a sinking ship I might add largely torpedoed<\/p>\n<p>by the West. The irony of it all is that many of them literally do go down in sinking ships.<\/p>\n<p>Islander<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a saying, give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach him to fish and he has a life, or something like that. Strikes me that &#8220;Western Society&#8221; has not only not taught others to fish, it has garnered the fish they might have caught on their own, and I use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/as-ye-sow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;As Ye Sow&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}