{"id":17879,"date":"2010-02-12T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nicholas_kristof_the_grotesque_vocabulary_in_congo\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:00:41","slug":"nicholas_kristof_the_grotesque_vocabulary_in_congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17879","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Kristof: The Grotesque Vocabulary in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve learned some new words.<\/p>\n<p>One is \u201cautocannibalism,\u201d\u009d coined in French but equally appropriate in English. It describes what happens when a militia here in eastern Congo\u2019s endless war cuts flesh from living victims and forces them to eat it.<\/p>\n<p>Another is \u201cre-rape.\u201d\u009d The need for that term arose because doctors were seeing women and girls raped, re-raped and re-raped again, here in the world capital of murder, rape, mutilation.<\/p>\n<p>This grotesque vocabulary helps answer a question that I\u2019ve had from readers: Why Congo?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/opinion\/11kristof.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve learned some new words. One is \u201cautocannibalism,\u201d\u009d coined in French but equally appropriate in English. It describes what happens when a militia here in eastern Congo\u2019s endless war cuts flesh from living victims and forces them to eat it.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17879\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,553,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-republic-of-congo","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}