{"id":1374,"date":"2003-09-05T23:26:40","date_gmt":"2003-09-06T03:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/05\/all-hail-for-swazi-king-with-12-brides"},"modified":"2003-09-05T23:26:40","modified_gmt":"2003-09-06T03:26:40","slug":"all-hail-for-swazi-king-with-12-brides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/05\/all-hail-for-swazi-king-with-12-brides\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hail for Swazi King with 12 Brides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a977'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nreeddance.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\"><br \/>\n      This story will have a certain resonance for a generation whose sex ed<br \/>\n          consisted of National Geographic magazines in the school library.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"407\">\n<p>Ludzidzini, Swaziland &#8211; Wearing only ropes of beads, wrap<br \/>\n        skirts and a rainbow of woolen tassels, thousands of girls danced for<br \/>\n        Swaziland&#8217;s King Mswati on Friday, hoping to be chosen as his twelfth<br \/>\n        queen. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/25#a771\">The 11th was blogged here last month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      But under a darkening sky lightning crackled and balls of hail rained down,<br \/>\n      sending the girls, tourists, spectators, diplomats and royals scrambling<br \/>\n      for cover, abruptly ending the traditional reed dance for the first time<br \/>\n      in memory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/ink\/03\/42\/features-lemons.php\">from<br \/>\n          LA Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story will have a certain resonance for a generation whose sex ed consisted of National Geographic magazines in the school library. Ludzidzini, Swaziland &#8211; Wearing only ropes of beads, wrap skirts and a rainbow of woolen tassels, thousands of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/05\/all-hail-for-swazi-king-with-12-brides\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}