{"id":6304,"date":"2011-12-23T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2020-01-02T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:13:22","slug":"kongos-for-the-urbanist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/kongos-for-the-urbanist\/","title":{"rendered":"KONGOS for The Urbanist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"eventDate\">Sat 17 December 2011<\/div>\n<p>Before their show at The Assembly last Saturday, I was lucky to sit in on an interview with South African Americans KONGOS. I was already a big fan of their music and can now happily report that they&#8217;re all really nice people too.<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kongos-comp2b_LMcC.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"KONGOS\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6309\" title=\"KONGOS\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kongos-comp2b_LMcC-575x205.jpg\" alt=\"KONGOS\" width=\"575\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kongos-comp2b_LMcC-575x205.jpg 575w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kongos-comp2b_LMcC-300x107.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kongos-comp2b_LMcC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post a link to the interview as soon as it&#8217;s up, in the meantime, <a title=\"urbanist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theurbanist.co.za\/interviews\/an-interview-with-kongos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out Liezel Thompson&#8217;s previous interview with the band over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"kongos\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KONGOS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KONGOS on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a title=\"soundcloud\" href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kongos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to <em>Lunatic<\/em> on Soundcloud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sat 17 December 2011 Before their show at The Assembly last Saturday, I was lucky to sit in on an interview with South African Americans KONGOS. I was already a big fan of their music and can now happily report &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/kongos-for-the-urbanist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2065],"tags":[58,55,170,387,126,131,44],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-press-shoots","tag-american","tag-cape-town","tag-international-act","tag-kongos","tag-rock","tag-south-africa","tag-the-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32348,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions\/32348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}