{"id":4140,"date":"2016-03-15T08:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T08:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2016\/03\/15\/clifford-ng-kwet-chan-18\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T07:42:23","slug":"clifford-ng-kwet-chan-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/clifford-ng-kwet-chan-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Clifford Ng Kwet Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><strong>Trois Demandes et Trois Refus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Des attestations acad\u00e9miques<br \/>\nDu primaire au tertiaire<br \/>\nEn passant par le secondaire<br \/>\nJ&#8217;en ai eu mon d\u00fb<br \/>\nAu prix de multiples sacrifices et d&#8217;\u00e9normes efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Mais un certificat de naissance<br \/>\nUn acte de l&#8217;\u00e9tat civil<br \/>\nJ&#8217;en ai \u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9 toute ma vie<br \/>\nIl ne me manque que ce bout de papier<br \/>\nPour \u00eatre un citoyen \u00e0 part enti\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<p>Dans cette colonie britannique<br \/>\nQu&#8217;\u00e9tait l&#8217;\u00eele Maurice<br \/>\nO\u00f9 je comptais seize ann\u00e9es de r\u00e9sidence ininterrompue<br \/>\nDe scolarit\u00e9 et o\u00f9 j&#8217;avais un casier judiciaire vierge<br \/>\nLe Secr\u00e9taire Colonial charg\u00e9 de l&#8217;Administration centrale<br \/>\nMe prenant pour un communiste<br \/>\nRejeta par trois fois ma demande<br \/>\nDe me faire naturaliser sujet britannique<br \/>\nJusqu&#8217;\u00e0 ce que je fisse comprendre \u00e0 ce haut fonctionnaire<br \/>\nQui mettait en doute ma loyau\u00e9, dans son bureau,<br \/>\nQue m\u00eame l&#8217;illustre po\u00e8te anglais William Wordsworth (1770-1850)<br \/>\nAvait dans certains de ses po\u00e8mes<br \/>\nFait l&#8217;\u00e9loge de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Published in print edition on 13 March 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trois Demandes et Trois Refus Des attestations acad\u00e9miques Du primaire au tertiaire En passant par le secondaire J&#8217;en ai eu mon d\u00fb Au prix de multiples sacrifices et d&#8217;\u00e9normes efforts. Mais un certificat de naissance Un acte de l&#8217;\u00e9tat civil J&#8217;en ai \u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9 toute ma vie Il ne me manque que ce bout de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":6560,"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":[5519],"tags":[328,6836,6837],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-2","tag-clifford-ng-kwet-chan","tag-colonie-britannique","tag-secretaire-colonial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-14M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}