{"id":52304,"date":"2018-08-02T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/02\/the-zimbabwe-we-hoped-for-isnt-dead-yet-dreams-dashed-by-election-violence\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T13:48:12","slug":"the-zimbabwe-we-hoped-for-isnt-dead-yet-dreams-dashed-by-election-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52304","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The Zimbabwe we hoped for isn&#039;t dead, yet&#039;: dreams dashed by election violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many hoped for a better future post-Mugabe, but the fatal clashes after Monday\u2019s polls have come as a visceral shockEarly on Thursday morning Joseph Chakutamazi left his home in the poor Harare neighbourhood of Hatfield and headed into the Zimbabwean capital. As usual, he stopped and picked up a few dozen newspapers from a distributor to sell to commuters and office workers. By 9.30 he was at his favourite pitch on a usually busy street corner near the former British colony\u2019s parliament on Africa Unity Square. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/02\/the-zimbabwe-we-hoped-for-not-dead-yet-dreams-dashed-by-election-violence\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;The Zimbabwe we hoped for isn&#039;t dead, yet&#039;: dreams dashed by election violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many hoped for a better future post-Mugabe, but the fatal clashes after Monday\u2019s polls have come as a visceral shockEarly on Thursday morning Joseph Chakutamazi left his home in the poor Harare neighbourhood of Hatfield and headed into the Zimbabwean capital. As usual, he stopped and picked up a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}