{"id":54938,"date":"2016-06-30T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_from_boko_harams_birthplace_instagram_posts_beyond_death_and_despair\/"},"modified":"2016-06-30T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T01:01:00","slug":"nyt_from_boko_harams_birthplace_instagram_posts_beyond_death_and_despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54938","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) From Boko Haram\u2019s Birthplace, Instagram Posts Beyond \u201d\u02dcDeath and Despair\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Instagram accounts like @humansofny, which captures the lives of New Yorkers \u201cone story at a time,\u201d\u009d Ms. [Fati] Abubakar snaps portraits of market vendors, refugees and students, posting them to her Instagram account, @bitsofborno, along with quotations or captions that describe them.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram has affected nearly all of her subjects in some way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they say there\u2019s an insurgency here, people assume it\u2019s nothing but death and despair,\u201d\u009d Ms. Abubakar said. \u201cI want to change the image. You can see, everyday life continues.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In Maiduguri, she has become somewhat of a celebrity. Civilian vigilante militia members posted throughout the city to guard against Boko Haram look out for her, beating back children who flock to her as she goes about her work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/30\/world\/africa\/boko-haram-nigeria-maiduguri-bitsofborno.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Instagram accounts like @humansofny, which captures the lives of New Yorkers \u201cone story at a time,\u201d\u009d Ms. [Fati] Abubakar snaps portraits of market vendors, refugees and students, posting them to her Instagram account, @bitsofborno, along with quotations or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54938\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,175,143,168,426,659,327,155,108,110,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-teens-youth","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54938","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=54938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}