{"id":683,"date":"2018-06-13T20:14:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/?p=683"},"modified":"2018-06-13T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:19:00","slug":"tsoeneng-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/tsoeneng-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ts’oeneng Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I arrived in Ts’oeneng I assumed the village got its name from the rock atop its mountain that looked like the profile of a monkey.\u00a0Ts’oene<\/em> means “monkey” in Sesotho.<\/p>\n

Later, I was told a couple of other origin stories. There used to live troops of monkeys in the caves near the mountain summit, that’s where the village got its name.<\/p>\n

Shrouded in fog in the photo above, you can’t see the village well, but it is all around the foot of the mountain.<\/p>\n

Then there is a clan in Lesotho called Bats’oene<\/em>, which you might translate as “people of the monkey” — that’s their totem animal. Maybe the village was settled by them.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Ts’oeneng Mountain was something I looked at every day. This photo was taken from my house on the Ngoana Jesu school grounds, looking east, on a summer morning.<\/p>\n

It was from behind that mountain that the sun rose dramatically, as did the moon. And among the villagers, the mountain’s nickname was Khoeli-e-kae<\/i>. “Where the moon is.”<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I arrived in Ts’oeneng I assumed the village got its name from the rock atop its mountain that looked like the profile of a monkey.\u00a0Ts’oene means “monkey” in Sesotho. Later, I was told a couple of other origin stories. There used to live troops of monkeys in the caves near the mountain summit, that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Tsoeneng-mountain.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8huLi-b1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}