{"id":269,"date":"2026-10-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/?p=269"},"modified":"2026-10-01T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:39:58","slug":"tesol-worldwide-image-of-the-day-togo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/2026\/10\/10\/tesol-worldwide-image-of-the-day-togo\/","title":{"rendered":"TESOL Worldwide Image of the Day: Togo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-10-togo-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-10-togo-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-10-togo-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-10-togo-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-10-togo-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-10-togo-2048x1365.webp 2048w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-10-togo-1568x1045.webp 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a sacred wood near Lake Togo, Voodoo priests and priestesses in white loincloths and pearl necklaces gather around an elder cradling a small oval stone \u2014 and the entire year ahead is read in its color. Epe-Ekpe (Ekpessosso) is the Guin people&#8217;s new year: the 363rd unveiling of the sacred stone took place this September in Glidji-Kpodji Square near An\u00e9ho, with drumming, singing, and hours of trance-like dancing. This year the stone emerged white \u2014 a sign of peace and prosperity. A tradition stretching back to 1663, still alive and pulsing. <a href=\"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/teach-in-Togo.htm\">Teach English in Togo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sacred wood near Lake Togo, Voodoo priests and priestesses in white loincloths and pearl necklaces gather around an elder cradling a small oval stone \u2014 and the entire year ahead is read in its color. Epe-Ekpe (Ekpessosso) is the Guin people&#8217;s new year: the 363rd unveiling of the sacred stone took place this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atesol-org","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}