{"id":65,"date":"2009-01-03T20:01:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T19:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-06-11T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T08:17:49","slug":"the_voice_of_makeni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/the_voice_of_makeni\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of Makeni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/blognews\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/VOMECFronPage.tif1.html','popup','width=215,height=320,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/blognews\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/VOMECFronPage.tif1.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/blognews\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/VOMECFronPage.tif-thumb-160x238.jpg\" alt=\"VOMECFronPage.tif.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/span>In the absence of much in the way of news (though, Happy new year folks!) here is an old instead. File under &#8220;the way we were&#8221;. I seem to be in that kind of a mood just now.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the cover of the 1983 Student Magazine, edited by yours truly. I was just out of school and in my first year at UNZA.<\/p>\n<p>Although it claims to be the first issue, I in fact remember that we had some left over covers from a previous issue, donated by Zambia Printing Company.<\/p>\n<p>The price was 20 ngwee but inflation has doubled it to 40 ngwee (There were 100 ngwee to the Kwacha, for those with long memories).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll post some pages from it another day.<\/p>\n<p>So, current students &#8211; what are you waiting for? Twenty-five years on, I&#8217;m sure the paper is due a revival!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of much in the way of news (though, Happy new year folks!) here is an old instead. File under &#8220;the way we were&#8221;. I seem to be in that kind of a mood just now. Here is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/the_voice_of_makeni\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[97,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}