{"id":72,"date":"2020-04-27T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/?p=72"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:21:42","slug":"confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waiting at the crossing for the lights to change a man extends his hand in greeting: : &#8220;Good morning.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I return his handshake and respond in like manner.<br>Suddenly his face darkens and his demeanour changes to one of aggression. He punches me in the arm and shouts: &#8220;Do you wanna fight?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I assure him that I don&#8217;t. With his face right up to mine he breathes: &#8220;Asalaam alaikum&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somewhat shaken and not a little fearful I step back and away and call out: &#8220;Alaikum asalaam&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He waves at me good-naturedly. The fug of trauma with which so many in our cities are plagued has lifted\u2026for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting at the crossing for the lights to change a man extends his hand in greeting: : &#8220;Good morning.&#8221; I return his handshake and respond in like manner.Suddenly his face darkens and his demeanour changes to one of aggression. He punches me in the arm and shouts: &#8220;Do you wanna fight?&#8221; I assure him that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}