{"id":240,"date":"2012-06-19T17:45:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/?p=240"},"modified":"2019-06-20T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T18:15:30","slug":"a-beautiful-coastal-town-with-a-dark-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/2012\/06\/a-beautiful-coastal-town-with-a-dark-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful coastal town with a dark history."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-266 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0922-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0922-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0922.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elmina is a small fishing town a little west of Cape Coast. It is the site of Elmina Castle, which became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade. Here, the fishers are drawing in their catch late afternoon. Today, Elmina&#8217;s main industry is fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elmina is a small fishing town a little west of Cape Coast. It is the site of Elmina Castle, which became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade. Here, the fishers are drawing in their catch late afternoon. Today, Elmina&#8217;s main industry is fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}