{"id":3307,"date":"2016-12-15T09:53:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T09:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2016-12-15T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T10:14:37","slug":"funga-alafia-welcome-peace-good-will-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/?p=3307","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Funga Alafia&#8221; &#8211; \u201cWelcome, peace, good will to you!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a\">Funga Alafia is a greeting song and dance throughout parts of West <span class=\"l6\">Africa. Some people\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">attribute it to the Hausa people from Nigeria. Alafia is a Hausa greeting and Aasheey\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">means something equivalent to good health and peace be with you. The song is often\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">sung with gestures, touching the head and extending the arms, then the lips, then\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">the heart and showing empty sleeves. These gestures symbolize greeting people with\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">your thoughts, with your words, with your heart and then assuring them that you have\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">no tricks up your sleeve, that you have come in peace<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/viewpure.com\/GTegkMJq15M?start=0&amp;end=0\">here <\/a>to watch and learn dance moves<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeSyLiCDsG24I5iknNdYX6ISw7bxC51Yo0vpJqlbJbnNXAf4uTwQ\" alt=\"Image result for Funga Alafia\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>http:\/\/www.artslive.com.au\/explore\/teacher-toolkit\/getting-started-with-music\/learn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funga Alafia is a greeting song and dance throughout parts of West Africa. Some people\u00a0attribute it to the Hausa people from Nigeria. Alafia is a Hausa greeting and Aasheey\u00a0means something equivalent to good health and peace be with you. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/?p=3307\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.bialik.vic.edu.au\/kitchengarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}