{"id":1095,"date":"2018-06-28T07:08:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T07:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torajamelo.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2018-06-28T07:08:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T07:08:53","slug":"toraja-what-happened-in-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/toraja-what-happened-in-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Toraja &#8211; what happened in 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One night in October 1989, my Bear, that&#8217;s how I called my man, a Toraja man, took me by his trail motorcycle (years later, I found out, that it was not even his. \u00a0It was rented by using his meagre student pocket money!) through the dark night to his father&#8217;s village. Batutumonga, a hamlet, dotted with big, black rocks among the green rice fields, high above the clouds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We spent the night in the wooden house of my Bear&#8217;s auntie (picture of view from her window). \u00a0She hastily heated a tin of sardine for the four of us (we rode with two other friends) and some rice. \u00a0Exhausted, we slept-the four of us on the wooden floor of the sitting room. It was soooo cold. Since then, I cannot stand the smell or to eat tinned sardine. \u00a0Since then, I know, that one day, I have to stay in Batutumonga. A yearning so strong, that I carry in all the cells of my body, every day. Until today, this is my three pronged dream: I want to live with my Bear, in a house in Batutumonga and then to share my experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus the purpose of this blog, to share with all of you out there!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night in October 1989, my Bear, that&#8217;s how I called my man, a Toraja man, took me by his trail motorcycle (years later, I found out, that it was not even his. \u00a0It was rented by using his meagre student pocket money!) through the dark night to his father&#8217;s village. Batutumonga, a hamlet, dotted with big, black rocks among the green rice fields, high above the clouds. &nbsp; We spent the night in the wooden house of my Bear&#8217;s auntie (picture of view from her window). \u00a0She hastily heated a tin of sardine for the four of us (we rode with two other friends) and some rice. \u00a0Exhausted, we [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stories"],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"35":{"name":"News \/ Updates","link":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/category\/news\/"},"34":{"name":"Stories","link":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/category\/stories\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torajamelo.digitechvault.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}