{"id":1271793,"date":"2022-12-30T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/30\/the-drum-is-the-soul-of-the-community\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:23:47","slug":"the-drum-is-the-soul-of-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/30\/the-drum-is-the-soul-of-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The drum is the soul of the community\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/_128155621_p0dr0v61.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Gambian drummer Seneke Sillah has been teaching in London for several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">People come to his classes for many reasons, to have fun, to relax and even to help deal with their mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He has been passionate about the instrument since he was a child, and is well versed in its traditional uses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced, filmed and edited by Miriam O\u2019Donkor and Mark Sedgwick.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gambian drummer Seneke Sillah has been teaching in London for several years. People come to his classes for many reasons, to have fun, to relax and even to help deal with their mental health issues. He has been passionate about the instrument since he was a child, and is well versed in its traditional uses. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}