{"id":810,"date":"2005-10-03T02:18:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2005-10-03T02:18:05","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:18:05","slug":"symbolic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/03\/symbolic\/","title":{"rendered":"symbolic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/symbolic.jpg?w=850\" alt='' \/><br \/>\ndon&#8217;t forget to tune in to sabc1 tonight at 22:00 to see GIANT STEPS, an afrocentric approach to blackness now. it&#8217;s 52 minutes and features the cream of south african poets and musicians, including zim ngqawana and kgafela oa magogodi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>don&#8217;t forget to tune in to sabc1 tonight at 22:00 to see GIANT STEPS, an afrocentric approach to blackness now. it&#8217;s 52 minutes and features the cream of south african poets and musicians, including zim ngqawana and kgafela oa magogodi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,10,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaganof","category-music","category-poetry","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9blZT-symbolic","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":777,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/new-south-african-linkages\/","url_meta":{"origin":810,"position":0},"title":"new south african linkages","author":"nathaniel","date":"16 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"ralph borland matt hindley theresa anne mackintosh physicalcomputing.co.za ccmixter (creative commons SA, make music!) are you a south african artist, gallerist or dealer with a web site? gimme, and i'll post it - even link to it permanently (at right)! bonus: i am also still looking for more contributors to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;creative commons&quot;","block_context":{"text":"creative commons","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/old-categories\/creative-commons\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1649,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/pissing-them-off-and-taking-a-piss-the-new-south-african-national-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":810,"position":1},"title":"Pissing them off and Taking a Piss: the new South African National Gallery","author":"nathaniel","date":"25 June 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Quirky art world hijack and intervention by some Cape Town cats: http:\/\/southafricannationalgallery.blogspot.com\/","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2019,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/colin-richards-gallery-aop-johannesburg\/","url_meta":{"origin":810,"position":2},"title":"Colin Richards @ Gallery AOP (Johannesburg)","author":"nathaniel","date":"29 September 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my favorite South African artists at one of my favorite South African galleries (disclosure: the latter is MY South African gallery): 8 - 31 October 2009 Opening on Thursday 10 October at 18:00 Preview by appointment Walkabout with the artist on Saturday 10 October at 12:00 Colin Richards\u00c2\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":558,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/25\/sekoto-to-sihlali-nine-black-pioneers-of-south-african-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":810,"position":3},"title":"sekoto to sihlali: nine black pioneers of south african art","author":"nathaniel","date":"25 February 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"ephraim ngatane's snow on location Sjoe. 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