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    {"id":6873,"date":"2014-12-15T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2014-12-15T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:20:17","slug":"remembering-yosra-elessawy-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/remembering-yosra-elessawy-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Remembering Yosra El-Essawy, R.I.P"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><iframe title=\"The Mrs. Carter Show: We&#039;re With You Yosra\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gHwVTptVgFM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Remembering Yosra El-Essawy, the talented artist, nomadic free spirited photographer,\u00a0 born in London to\u00a0 Hesham(Her Father) and Laila(Her Mother), both of Egyptian roots.\u00a0 Yosra represented what many feared and still fear to do, &#8220;chasing dreams in the narrow tunnel&#8221;. 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Today I am in total awe of my life, of the b<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">eings that overflow it with love and peace and sincerity.<\/span><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace, Remembering Yosra El-Essawy, R.I.P: (July 3rd 1981-<span class=\"st\">October 25, 2014)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6874\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/926c8b54-f5eb-472e-a390-4c79a58b0e97.jpg\" alt=\"Remembering Yosra El-Essawy\" width=\"496\" height=\"745\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6879\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/screen-shot-2014-10-27-at-8-30-01-am.png\" alt=\"Yosra El-Essawy hugging Beyonce\" width=\"614\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/screen-shot-2014-10-27-at-8-30-01-am.png 614w, https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/screen-shot-2014-10-27-at-8-30-01-am-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/screen-shot-2014-10-27-at-8-30-01-am-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6876\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/zicSx3cMPNqPbXlIoBC2hJDOtoeofTmcfb4NElTTtumblr_n3b1huWe4m1rqgjz2o1_1280-650x577.jpg\" alt=\"zicSx3cMPNqPbXlIoBC2hJDOtoeofTmcfb4NElTTtumblr_n3b1huWe4m1rqgjz2o1_1280-650x577\" width=\"650\" height=\"577\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span class=\"copy-paste-block\">Inspired by Bob Marley\u2019s philosophy \u201cNone but ourselves can free our mind\u201d, Orijin is a unique \u201cCulture Brand\u201d connecting all African descendants together through it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ORIJINSTORE.COM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fashion brand<\/a> and thought provoking <a href=\"http:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">magazine<\/a> to influence our lifestyles world wide\u2026.Don\u2019t just WEAR Culture, SHARE Culture<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering Yosra El-Essawy, the talented artist, nomadic free spirited photographer,\u00a0 born in London to\u00a0 Hesham(Her Father) and Laila(Her Mother), both of Egyptian roots.\u00a0 Yosra represented<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/remembering-yosra-elessawy-rip\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roots"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/article-2448991-189565BD00000578-131_634x510.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6880,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions\/6880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}