{"id":283,"date":"2022-12-03T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T12:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=283"},"modified":"2022-12-03T12:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T12:33:47","slug":"living-in-ghana-as-a-transgender-is-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/living-in-ghana-as-a-transgender-is-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Living In Ghana as a Transgender is Difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ghana\u2019s only openly transgender musician says \u2018living in Ghana every day is dangerous for her\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Maxine Angel Opoku, in a recent interview with the New Times, she stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery day is dangerous for me. I cannot walk on the street as a normal person. I fear for my daughter a lot. She is a vociferous person and so she is a target, and I always pray that God should protect her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see a life here for me. If I cannot come out openly, go on the streets to move about my daily life, if I cannot get a job, how do I sustain myself? This is no life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s only openly transgender musician says \u2018living in Ghana every day is dangerous for her\u2019<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nMaxine Angel Opoku, in a recent interview with the New Times, she stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day is dangerous for me. I cannot walk on the street as a normal person. I fear for my daughter a lot. She is a vociferous person and so she is a target, and I always pray that God should protect her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see a life here for me. If I cannot come out openly, go on the streets to move about my daily life, if I cannot get a job, how do I sustain myself? This is no life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}