{"id":1608,"date":"2012-04-13T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T09:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2012\/04\/13\/joseph-jg-varondin-a-propro-td-fuego\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:10:14","slug":"joseph-jg-varondin-a-propro-td-fuego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/joseph-jg-varondin-a-propro-td-fuego\/","title":{"rendered":"I bow, I congratulate, I thank you\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Apropos TD Fuego\u2019s \u2018The Gold Medalist\u2019<\/strong><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mr TD Fuego<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the names of all and every Basanti, Brigitte, Bilkis and other Mauritius Female Textile Workers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your five-column article in the <em>Mauritius Times<\/em> of 30 March 2012 is worth a five-hundred page essay about these Women who above all the others deserve the title of Ladies. And to whom an ungrateful Mauritius owes so much !<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once I tried to write a few pages about them\u2026 but I gave up after some hundred pages\u2026 for lack of gift, talent and models within reach\u2026 There were and still there are no Female Textile Workers in Reunion. Please, do write that book\u00a0!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Were I the Mayor of some Municipality, I would have given a large street the following name:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Basanti, Brigitte and Bilkis Street<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Mauritius Most Meritorious Female Textile Workers<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yours very sincerely\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Joseph J.G. Varondin<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>Reunion Island<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 13 April 2012<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos TD Fuego\u2019s \u2018The Gold Medalist\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":12847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[19811,19810,1263],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readers-speak","tag-joseph-j-g-varondin","tag-mauritius-female-textile-workers","tag-td-fuego"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Reader.jpg?fit=663%2C417&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-pW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}