{"id":2619,"date":"2010-04-28T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2010-04-28T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:04:35","slug":"chimamanda-adichie-ted-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/04\/28\/chimamanda-adichie-ted-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimamanda Adichie TED Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great talk by Nigerian novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie\">Chimamanda Adichie<\/a>.  A wonderful narrative on the frustrations with misrecognition &#8212; telling a single story about a people.  Play it for the next person that refers to Africa as a country!<\/p>\n<p><!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/ChimamandaAdichie_2009G-medium.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ChimamandaAdichie-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=652&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story;year=2009;theme=words_about_words;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=speaking_at_tedglobal2009;theme=master_storytellers;event=TEDGlobal+2009;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great talk by Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie. A wonderful narrative on the frustrations with misrecognition &#8212; telling a single story about a people. Play it for the next person that refers to Africa as a country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}