{"id":1409,"date":"2012-09-19T01:17:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T01:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:42:33","slug":"essay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<div class=\"page-list page-list-ext \">\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/essay\/akin-adesokan\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essays: Akin Adesokan\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/Akin-Adesokan-pic-150x150.png\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Essays: Akin Adesokan\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/writings\/essay\/akin-adesokan\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essays: Akin Adesokan\">Writings \/ Essays: Akin Adesokan<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Neo Africanus: In Teju Cole\u2019s World*  \r\n \r\nOf the many encounters in which Julius, the protagonist of Open City  \u2013 Teju Cole\u2019s elegantly disarming novel \u2013 finds himself, two strike me as constituting the pulse of the subtle cultural politics animating the nov...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1408,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1409","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1409\/revisions\/1609"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}