{"id":30171,"date":"2015-08-21T23:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T03:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=30171"},"modified":"2015-08-21T23:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T03:17:54","slug":"recommended-reading-clemantine-wamariya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/recommended-reading-clemantine-wamariya\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading: Clemantine Wamariya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to recommend the story of Clemantine Wamariya for a long time. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/everything-is-yours-everything-is-not-yours-d6f66bd9c6f9\" target=\"_blank\">Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours<\/a>,&#8221; written by Clemantine with Elizabeth Weil, is best described by its own introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;At age six, I ran away with my sister to escape the Rwandan massacre. We spent seven years as refugees. What do you want me to do about it? Cry?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sister, Claire, is only nine years older than Clemantine. What she did to enable them to survive is extraordinary. I was particularly struck by her reaction to one of better refugee camps they sheltered in: &#8220;&#8230; Claire felt staying in a good camp was even worse than staying in a bad one\u200a\u2014\u200awhat if we started to think this life was okay?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/everything-is-yours-everything-is-not-yours-d6f66bd9c6f9\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to recommend the story of Clemantine Wamariya for a long time. &#8220;Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours,&#8221; written by Clemantine with Elizabeth Weil, is best described by its own introduction: &#8220;At age six, I ran away with my sister to escape the Rwandan massacre. We spent seven years as refugees. What&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/recommended-reading-clemantine-wamariya\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-in-the-news","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30212,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30171\/revisions\/30212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}