{"id":513,"date":"2011-06-12T01:26:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T01:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=513"},"modified":"2011-06-12T01:27:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T01:27:57","slug":"back-in-dili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Back in Dili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I flew into Dili yesterday to be part of an extraordinary documentary making trip next week.\u00a0 The film maker and producer who, together with Kirsty Sword Gusmao, obtained the footage of the Santa Cruz Cementry massacre, smuggled it out of the country and distributed it world wide, are back in\u00a0Timor.\u00a0 They are\u00a0working together again to make a documentary following up on the\u00a0 leaders of the Timorese independence movement and are filming Kirsty on a road trip to Baucau to visit Maucale school\u00a0where Spend it Well has a new school building under construction.<\/p>\n<p>Walking along\u00a0Dili&#8217;s seafront it is hard to believe we are only an hour from Darwin.\u00a0 Men push trolleys bearing corn cobs, babies balance precariously on the front of motorbikes and bamboo stalls sell hundreds of glorious looking (unrefridgerated) fish.\u00a0 The fruit stalls are stacked in displays that are more beautiful than anything in high end fruit shops in Australia and the children run around playing with empty water bottles on strings.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always good to be here in such a beautiful place and to\u00a0be reminded\u00a0how hard it is to get things done, but also just by seeing the groups of young men standing around with no-where to go, how great the need for education is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sat-morning-walk-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-514\" title=\"Sat morning walk 002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sat-morning-walk-002-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sat-morning-walk-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-515\" title=\"Sat morning walk 003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sat-morning-walk-003-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sat-morning-walk-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-516\" title=\"Sat morning walk 004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sat-morning-walk-004-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flew into Dili yesterday to be part of an extraordinary documentary making trip next week.\u00a0 The film maker and producer who, together with Kirsty Sword Gusmao, obtained the footage of the Santa Cruz Cementry massacre, smuggled it out of the country and distributed it world wide, are back in\u00a0Timor.\u00a0 They are\u00a0working together again to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,10,9,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}