{"id":1109,"date":"2019-06-22T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:31:14","slug":"paleontology-intellectual-disagreements-and-the-lure-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/2019\/06\/22\/paleontology-intellectual-disagreements-and-the-lure-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Paleontology, intellectual disagreements and the lure of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1107 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2019\/06\/Himba-e-Stefano-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2019\/06\/Himba-e-Stefano-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2019\/06\/Himba-e-Stefano.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cI have never understood the lure of Africa; at the end of this novel, I did. [\u2026] landscape descriptions are exquisite and closely observed. At the end, I felt I had been there, in these intense, parched African places, tasted the food, smelled the wind and the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See the whole review of Arianna Dagnino&#8217;s &#8220;The Afrikaner&#8221; by Monika Ullmann <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/paleontology-intellectual-disagreements-lure-africa-dagnino-phd-\/?published=t\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have never understood the lure of Africa; at the end of this novel, I did. [\u2026] landscape descriptions are exquisite and closely observed. At the end, I felt I had been there, in these intense, parched African places, tasted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/2019\/06\/22\/paleontology-intellectual-disagreements-and-the-lure-of-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}