{"id":209456,"date":"2026-02-07T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209456"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:22:31","slug":"hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209456","title":{"rendered":"Hans Van Den Houten Chronicles Adventure and Cultural Discovery in One Year in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author  Hans Van Den Houten  invites readers into a vivid firsthand experience of life in Central Africa with his memoir,  \u201cOne Year in Africa.\u201d  The book follows his journey through Congo L\ufffdopoldville, Burundi, and Rwanda during 1964 and 1965 while serving as a young international employee of Royal Dutch Shell&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webwire.com\/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=348814\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Hans Van Den Houten invites readers into a vivid firsthand experience of life in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa.jpg",240,240,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa.jpg",240,240,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa.jpg",240,240,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa.jpg",240,240,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa.jpg",240,240,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa.jpg",240,240,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa.jpg",240,240,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa.jpg",240,240,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209456-hans-van-den-houten-chronicles-adventure-and-cultural-discovery-in-one-year-in-africa.jpg",240,240,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}