{"id":10132,"date":"2023-02-01T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=10132"},"modified":"2023-02-01T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T07:00:31","slug":"the-masaai-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=10132","title":{"rendered":"The Masaai Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spitting for blessingsThe Maasai people of Kenya &#x1f1f0;&#x1f1ea; and Northern Tanzania &#x1f1f9;&#x1f1ff; view spitting as a form of blessing and a sign of respect. Tribespeople use spitting to greet or say goodbye to friends, clinch a bargain or to wish someone good luck. Two friends greeting each other will spit in their palms before shaking hands.When a baby is born, family members will spit on the child to wish him or her a long life and good luck. Spitting is also customary on a daughter\u2019s wedding day, where her father will spit on her forehead to wish her a blessed union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/FB_IMG_1675234503744-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/FB_IMG_1675234503744-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/FB_IMG_1675234503744-1-480x586.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 750px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spitting for blessingsThe Maasai people of Kenya &#x1f1f0;&#x1f1ea; and Northern Tanzania &#x1f1f9;&#x1f1ff; view spitting as a form of blessing and a sign of respect. Tribespeople use spitting to greet or say goodbye to friends, clinch a bargain or to wish someone good luck. Two friends greeting each other will spit in their palms before shaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/FB_IMG_1675234503744.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10135,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions\/10135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}