{"id":22,"date":"2012-11-14T21:25:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2013-08-01T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:25:08","slug":"what-our-visitors-have-to-say-about-vodou","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/what-our-visitors-have-to-say-about-vodou","title":{"rendered":"What our visitors have to say about Vodou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI thought the exhibit was very interesting and it opened my eyes to something that I misunderstood and thought to be evil, like something shoved away and never explained.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Katherine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am so happy that this spirituality can be shared openly. Thank you.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Catherine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis exhibition is truly insightful into a practice that has become so stereotyped. It was great to learn about its true nature and origins. The displays are excellent and bring the history of vodou to life.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Amber and Leo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThank you for sharing the gift of your spirituality and your culture. You have enriched my life! Your stories will become part of the framework for my work as a spiritual care provider in a large hospital. Again, thank you for this precious gift!\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Pam Driedger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I was positively surprised by the amount I could learn about vodou. I admit I thought vodou was only the practice of sticking needle into dolls, but now I understand that I have much to learn.&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Amalie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Thank you for sharing your religion with me. I have been educated on something I did not know of before. You have changed my perception of vodou for the better as all I had before was Hollywood\u2019s version. It is a very intriguing religion and culture. Thank you.&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Cassidy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I would simply like to share that this exhibit completely expelled every myth and misconception about vodou that the media (for the most part) impressed upon me. Thank you.&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>S.B.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI thought the exhibit was very interesting and it opened my eyes to something that I misunderstood and thought to be evil, like something shoved away and never explained.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Katherine \u201cI am so happy that this spirituality can be shared openly. Thank you.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Catherine \u201cThis exhibition is truly insightful into a practice that has become so stereotyped. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"tpl-page-vodou.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}