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 In Phuong’s garden there are fish, cassava, grapefruit, longan and lychee trees with shivering leaves, tea bushes, lemon and lime trees, banana trees, pineapple palms, crimson aubretia and many chickens. I am sitting in a shady part of the porch, resting in the heat and planning my lessons. Through layer upon layer of foliage I see water buffalo ploughing the rice fields. On the bank beyond, another farm. I see more shades of green than usual; different kinds of green. Something is moving differently. A helmeted soldier emerges from the shade of the giant bamboo bearing a red flag.<\/span><\/h1>\n

‘Phuong, who are they?<\/span><\/p>\n

‘The government<\/span><\/p>\n

‘What are they doing?<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Searching for landmines from the war.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Are there mines here?<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Yes, we believe. And  <\/span>government is building a highway.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>through our garden. A big roa’ <\/span><\/p>\n

‘That is sad. It is so peaceful and beautiful here.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Yes, but i’ will bring us trade, it is progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We are generously encouraged by the family to help ourselves to produce from the garden. <\/span><\/p>\n

‘Would you like chicken tonight?<\/span><\/p>\n

His step mother slices off its head and holds it upsidedown to bleed, then submerges it in water before the plucking. I feel guilty, then I feel guilty that I feel guilty given that I eat chicken all the time. It’s bright blood spatters the concrete of the outside food area.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 In Phuong’s garden there are fish, cassava, grapefruit, longan and lychee trees with shivering leaves, tea bushes, lemon and lime trees, banana trees, pineapple palms, crimson aubretia and many chickens. I am sitting in a shady part of the porch, resting in the heat and planning my lessons. Through layer upon layer of foliage I… Read More »Land mines in the garden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}