{"id":27,"date":"2007-12-22T08:19:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2007-12-22T08:20:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T15:20:50","slug":"african-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"African Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p>For people who haven&#8217;t been there, it may seem strange to say that.  In the US, a lot of what we hear and see and think about Africa has to do with poverty and suffering and disease and death.  And it&#8217;s true, those things are all a part of life in Africa.  But many of the happiest people I&#8217;ve met are Africans, and Malawi might have been the most joyful African country I&#8217;ve visited.  Life is simpler there.  You have to learn to be content with less, but you have less to worry about as a result.  So I dedicate this blog post to competing with every photograph you&#8217;ve ever seen of miserable malnourished kids with flies in their eyes.  See a different side of Africa.  See people&#8217;s joy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-143-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-143-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-094-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-094-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-152-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-152-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-115.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-115.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-307-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-307-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-130-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-130-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-291-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-291-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-150-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-150-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-163-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-163-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-144-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-144-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-242-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-242-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-155-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-155-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-263-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-263-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-128-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-128-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-254.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-254.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-286.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-286.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-110-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-110-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-298-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-298-2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-277.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-277.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-118.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-118.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-285-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-285-2.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2007\/12\/malawi-280-2.jpg\" alt=\"malawi-280-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa makes me happy. For people who haven&#8217;t been there, it may seem strange to say that. In the US, a lot of what we hear and see and think about Africa has to do with poverty and suffering and disease and death. And it&#8217;s true, those things are all a part of life in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}