{"id":8526,"date":"2026-04-30T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/?p=8526"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:49:25","slug":"%e3%80%8cfollowing-the-sound-into-the-painting%e3%80%8dout-of-africa-that-unforgettable-african-affection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/?p=8526","title":{"rendered":"\u300cFollowing the sound into the painting\u300dOut of Africa: That Unforgettable African Affection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.bilibili.com\/video\/BV1AJAQzGE8D?t=1.0&#8243;]<div class=\"vcex-spacing\" style=\"height:30px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]\n<p>In the zoo, it is us who are watching the animals; but when we are in the East African savannah, we become the &#8220;caged guests&#8221; trapped in the off-road vehicle, while the free creatures are the true masters of this land. This shift in perspective forms the indelible &#8220;African complex&#8221; in the hearts of every person who sets foot on the continent. When the melody of &#8220;Main Title&#8221; plays, the expansive strings are like the continuous mountains of Kenya. At that moment, we are not just listening, but are being carried by the wind across that savannah.<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#038;#8221&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mr-shan","post_format-post-format-video","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8528,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions\/8528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}