{"id":663,"date":"2013-10-24T15:22:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T13:22:32","slug":"calling-my-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Calling my ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just returned from the most spectacular visit to <a title=\"Bushmans Kloof\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bushmanskloof.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve<\/a> in the Cederberg mountains. Climbing to the rock art sites, some over 10, 000 years old, I felt a profound connection to early man.<\/p>\n<p>My ancestors have been on my mind recently. Here is a picture of me taken in the road where my grandfather was born in Scotland. <a title=\"BizCommunity.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizcommunity.com\/Article\/196\/373\/102221.html\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve written a piece about it which you can read here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BB-Glasgow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-664\" alt=\"A rainy day in the Gorbals where Nathan Moses Berkman was born.\" src=\"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BB-Glasgow-300x161.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainy day in the Gorbals where Nathan Moses Berkman was born.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just returned from the most spectacular visit to Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve in the Cederberg mountains. Climbing to the rock art sites, some over 10, 000 years old, I felt a profound connection to early man. My ancestors have been on my mind&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=663\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel_writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}