{"id":959,"date":"2018-04-23T13:37:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2019-11-30T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T08:45:58","slug":"children-blamed-to-be-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Children Blamed to be Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC_2663-e1524483379555.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC_2663-e1524483379555.png\" alt=\"Witches in Togo\" width=\"560\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/worldlink-togos-witch-children\/av-43469238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deutsche Welle\/WorldLink<br \/>\nTogo&#8217;s Witch Children<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the small West African country of Togo, belief in witchcraft is widespread. A 2009 survey by Gallup found that just over half of sub-Saharan Africans believe in the practice. It&#8217;s often seen as the cause for anything unusual, from sickness to crop failure. Those accused of being witches or wizards are abused and ostracized \u2014 and many are children.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/worldlink-togos-witch-children\/av-43469238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the full report here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Welle\/WorldLink Togo&#8217;s Witch Children In the small West African country of Togo, belief in witchcraft is widespread. A 2009 survey by Gallup found that just over half of sub-Saharan Africans believe in the practice. It&#8217;s often seen as the cause for anything unusual, from sickness to crop failure. Those accused of being witches or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[84,165,175,180,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}