{"id":10760,"date":"2012-01-29T08:16:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T08:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancullen.net\/stories\/?p=92"},"modified":"2012-01-29T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T08:16:25","slug":"how-are-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/2012\/01\/29\/how-are-the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow are the children?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many accomplished and fabled tribes of Africa, no tribe was considered to have warriors more fearsome or more intelligent than the mighty Masai. It is perhaps surprising then to learn the traditional greeting that passed between Masai warriors. \u201cKasserian ingera\u201d, one would always say to another. It means \u201cHow are the children?\u201d<br \/>\nIt is still traditional greeting among Masai, acknowledging the high value that the Masai place on their children\u2019s well-being. Even warriors with no children of their own would always give the traditional answer, \u201cAll children are well\u201d.<br \/>\nThis meant, of course, that peace and safety prevail; that priorities of protecting the young and the powerless are in place; that the Masai people have not forgotten their reason for being, their proper function, and their responsibilities. \u201cAll children are well\u201d denotes that life is good and that the daily struggles of existence, even among a poor people, include the proper care of the young and defenseless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many accomplished and fabled tribes of Africa, no tribe was considered to have warriors more fearsome or more intelligent than the mighty Masai. It is perhaps surprising then to learn the traditional greeting that passed between Masai warriors. \u201cKasserian ingera\u201d, one would always say to another. It means \u201cHow are the children?\u201d It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}