{"id":6752,"date":"2011-11-27T03:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2011-11-27T03:55:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T11:55:10","slug":"different-kind-of-legal-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/6752","title":{"rendered":"different kind of legal system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8220;It is said that in the Baemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the center of the village, alone and unfettered. All work ceases, and every man, woman and child in the village gathers in a large circle around the accused individual. Then each person in the tribe &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; speaks to the accused, one at a time, about all the good things the person\u00a0has done in his lifetime.\u00a0All his positive attributes, good deeds, strengths, and kindnesses are recited carefully and at length. The tribal ceremony often lasts several days. At the end, the tribal circle is broken, a joyous celebration takes place, and the person is symbolically and literally welcomed back into the tribe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a title=\"Alice Walker\" href=\"http:\/\/alicewalkersgarden.com\/books\/photos\/\">Alice Walker<\/a>, author of <em>We Are The Ones We&#8217;ve Been Waiting For<\/em>, <em>The Color Purple<\/em>, <em>Why War Is Never A Good Idea<\/em>, and so many more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-7012\" title=\"alice_walker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/alice_walker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is said that in the Baemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the center of the village, alone and unfettered. All work ceases, and every man, woman and child in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/6752\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/6752\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[39,385,449,834],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","tag-alice-walker","tag-gratitude-2","tag-inspiration","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}