{"id":203,"date":"2016-01-21T02:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T02:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/?p=203"},"modified":"2016-01-21T02:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T02:36:26","slug":"musings-of-an-african-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/articles\/musings-of-an-african-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings of an African Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thespecialistsltd.com\/files\/Silver_Shackles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3153\" height=\"2030\" \/>I am wired this way I say in my defense,<br \/>\nWired to think about the hopelessness in every situation<br \/>\nWired to ignore the 5\u00a0percent chance that this or anything else might work<br \/>\nTruth is, I am wired to be afraid<br \/>\nWired to assume<br \/>\nNot to ask, not to talk, only to listen<br \/>\nWired to think my thoughts don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nAnd that adults are always right<br \/>\nEven though I know in my heart this can&#8217;t always be<br \/>\nNevertheless, so shall it be.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m wired does not mean it in my genes<br \/>\nThat it is in my genes does not mean its unchangeable<br \/>\nWith exposure, experience, education<br \/>\nI have come to know<br \/>\nThat hope is the belief of things yet unseen<br \/>\nand I am breaking my mental shackles<br \/>\nrunning young, free and wild because I can<br \/>\nEnjoying the new taste of mental liberation and savoring<br \/>\nEvery, every, every moment<br \/>\nBecause now I know: that a 1 can become a 100 if you believe<br \/>\nAnd a 100 a 1 if you believe.<\/p>\n<p>Obeyaa Ofori Atta.<\/p>\n<p>Image Source:http:\/\/www.thespecialistsltd.com\/files\/Silver_Shackles.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am wired this way I say in my defense, Wired to think about the hopelessness in every situation Wired to ignore the 5\u00a0percent chance that this or anything else might work Truth is, I am wired to be afraid Wired to assume Not to ask, not to talk, only to listen Wired to think&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/waso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}