{"id":7196,"date":"2016-08-17T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:46:12","slug":"white-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7196","title":{"rendered":"White River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WhiteRiver\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dAnovZck2hM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About a time and place I knew in South Africa 1977. And an incredible event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had been hitch-hiking through the night from Johannesburg to White River (Witrivier) in the Eastern Transvaal. Dawn was just breaking as I was walking towards the town, in sight now but still some distance away. In the first light, I could see a figure moving, coming towards me. It was a man, running slowly, in full Zulu regalia, with spear and shield. He passed without a word \u2026 going \u2026 I know not where. I remember the beauty, the strength of the man, my amazement, and also my fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty much all of the sounds on this are from the Yamaha TG55, with RX11 drums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a time and place I knew in South Africa 1977. And an incredible event. I had been hitch-hiking through the night from Johannesburg to White River (Witrivier) in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/7548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}