{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Debunk Quarterly","provider_url":"https:\/\/debunk.media\/quarterly","author_name":"Sam Amira","author_url":"https:\/\/debunk.media\/quarterly\/author\/namalesamamiragmail-com\/","title":"A STRANGER IN SAINT-PAUL DE VENCE - Debunk Quarterly","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QasLEZYspf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debunk.media\/quarterly\/a-stranger-in-saint-paul-de-vence\/\">A STRANGER IN SAINT-PAUL DE VENCE<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/debunk.media\/quarterly\/a-stranger-in-saint-paul-de-vence\/embed\/#?secret=QasLEZYspf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;A STRANGER IN SAINT-PAUL DE VENCE&#8221; &#8212; Debunk Quarterly\" data-secret=\"QasLEZYspf\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/debunk.media\/quarterly\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/debunk.media\/quarterly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kiprop.png","thumbnail_width":1920,"thumbnail_height":1080,"description":"I was reading James Baldwin\u2019s Go Tell It on The Mountain on my phone in a \u2018Double M\u2019 bus, stuck in Nairobi traffic when I received the news. Months earlier, a writer friend had sent me a prompt to apply for the four-week Maison Baldwin Residency, fashioned after the Black American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, and aimed at Black writers across the world \u201cwho wrote in the spirit of James Baldwin\u2019\u2019. I had long admired Baldwin and so I obviously applied. Now I couldn\u2019t believe my luck. I would spend a month at Saint-Paul de Vence, a commune in the South of France where Baldwin had lived for the final seventeen years of his life."}