{"id":13774,"date":"2023-03-30T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/?p=13774"},"modified":"2023-03-30T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:55:49","slug":"when-i-get-older-the-story-behind-wavin-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/when-i-get-older-the-story-behind-wavin-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Get Older: The Story Behind \u201cWavin\u2019 Flag\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By K&#8217;Naan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Somalia, he grew up in Mogadishu. His grandfather was a renowned poet who passed on his love of words to his grandson. When the Somali Civil War began in 1991, K\u2019NAAN was just thirteen. His mother made the difficult decision to move her family so that they could grow up in safety. First in New York and then in Toronto, K\u2019NAAN faced many challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like so many other immigrants, he had to make a place for himself in a world of alien customs, clothes, and language. His road was a hard one: he lost many friends to violence. But K\u2019NAAN\u2019s love of music, and his enormous talent, became a way for him to connect with his past, with his classmates, and eventually, to millions of people around the world. Not only does K\u2019NAAN tell a story that will inspire and encourage young readers, but he provides a brief history of the Somalian conflict. The lyrics of \u201cWavin\u2019 Flag\u201d are also included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Order Online:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1770493026?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_X1QA1YP098PT6V1HM64K\">When I Get Older: The Story Behind &#8220;Wavin&#8217; Flag&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"When I get Older: The Story Behind Wavin&#039; Flag\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FAcg4MhKa4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth, beautifully illustrated by artist Stevie Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"image","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[78],"class_list":{"0":"post-13774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-children","8":"tag-diversity-inclusion","9":"post_format-post-format-image"},"aioseo_notices":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13777,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774\/revisions\/13777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}