{"id":693,"date":"2015-07-11T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=693"},"modified":"2015-07-11T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T10:08:51","slug":"held-by-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Held by love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ray-Phiri.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-694 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ray-Phiri-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Phiri\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ray-Phiri-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ray-Phiri.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ray Phiri performed at the Guy Butler Theatre with a broken rib and only days after his wife died.<\/p>\n<p>More performance art but he pulled it off. Front row seat: saw every grimace and wince.<\/p>\n<p>He cried and wiped his face with tissues. Tea was brought for the 68-year-old artist.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome music with some dreadful notes.<\/p>\n<p>But he was embraced by the full house and used the love to push through.<\/p>\n<p>At one point he keeled over and stage hands and a guitarist got him upright. The eyes of the backing band told the story; they looked stricken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Mike Loewe<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Phiri performed at the Guy Butler Theatre with a broken rib and only days after his wife died. More performance art but he pulled it off. Front row seat: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=693\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[679],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}