{"id":9658,"date":"2020-07-06T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2020-07-06T15:09:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:09:07","slug":"popular-author-chimamanda-adichie-mourns-father-says-shes-stranded-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/06\/popular-author-chimamanda-adichie-mourns-father-says-shes-stranded-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Author Chimamanda Adichie Mourns Father, Says She\u2019s Stranded In US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Popular author, Chimamanda Adichie has mourned her father who died after a brief illness on June 10.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to Facebook on Saturday, she lamented that she can\u2019t come into the country following the closures of the nation\u2019s airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her tributes, Adichie noted with pains that her heart is broken; stressing that she can\u2019t belive writing about her beloved father in the past tense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the novelist, the loss of her dad has profoundly changed her life, adding that \u201cgrief is a cruel kind of education\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chimamanda described her beloved father, James Adichie, as \u201cNigeria\u2019s first professor of Statistics\u201d who \u201cstudied Mathematics at Ibadan and got his PhD in Statistics from Berkeley, returning to Nigeria shortly before the Biafran War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing she said: \u201cI am writing about my father in the past tense, and I cannot believe that I am writing about my father in the past tense. My heart is broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGrief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn that your side muscles will ache painfully from days of crying. You learn how glib condolences can feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSleep is the only respite. On waking, the enormity, the finality, strikes \u2013 I will never see my father again. Never again. I crash and go under the urge to run and run, to hide from this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe shallow surface of my mind feels safest because to go deeper is to face unbearable pain. All the tomorrows without him, his wisdom, his grace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Channels TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular author, Chimamanda Adichie has mourned her father who died after a brief illness on June 10. Taking to Facebook on Saturday, she lamented that she can\u2019t come into the country following the closures of the nation\u2019s airports. In her tributes, Adichie noted with pains that her heart is broken; stressing that she can\u2019t belive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Chimamanda.jpg?fit=1024%2C639&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}