{"id":7283,"date":"2015-07-04T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T03:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=7283"},"modified":"2015-07-04T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T03:25:23","slug":"photo-challenge-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=7283","title":{"rendered":"Photo challenge: Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, a French friend asked me to define the word ‘yoke’.\u00a0 She looked in her bilingual dictionary and came up with ‘constraint’.\u00a0 But it’s more than that, I think, and I tried to explain that it can be a mark of servitude.\u00a0 Or slavery.\u00a0 Or it can be a metaphor for a burden, anything that keeps you coupled to a problem.<\/p>\n

Today I passed this yoke, and took the photo to show her.<\/p>\n

A yoke is a binding thing.\u00a0 A piece of wood fastened to the necks of two animals, then attached to a plough, forces them to work obediently and stops them escaping.\u00a0 When the yoke is removed, and especially once it’s nailed to the top of a post, the animals are free to roam and go where they please.\u00a0 Independence.<\/p>\n

\"Yoke\"<\/p>\n

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Thanks Ailsa for the ‘Independence’ photo challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, a French friend asked me to define the word ‘yoke’.\u00a0 She looked in her bilingual dictionary and came up with ‘constraint’.\u00a0 But it’s more than that, I think, and I tried to explain that it can be a mark of servitude.\u00a0 Or slavery.\u00a0 Or it can be a metaphor for a burden, anything that … <\/p>\n

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