{"id":1013,"date":"2023-07-10T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/inside-mozambiques-abandoned-luxury-hotel-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:20:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:20:31","slug":"inside-mozambiques-abandoned-luxury-hotel-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/inside-mozambiques-abandoned-luxury-hotel-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Mozambique&#39;s abandoned luxury hotel &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNlNYU7lxNg?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The Grand Hotel in Beira, Mozambique has had an extraordinary life: opened in 1954, it was a luxury destination with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and cinema. Closed in 1963 and taken over for political purposes during the country&#8217;s war of independence, it now houses a few thousand squatters \u2013 some of whom are the third generation living there.<\/p>\n<p>Mozambique photographer Amilton Neves Cuna documented the space, and the people living there, in his fascinating project Grand Hotel. In this video, he talks about what drew him to the building, and what its history can tell us about the impact of colonialism. &#8220;Photography should focus on\u2026 building a narrative, telling the unknown \u2013 trying to bring new stories to the world,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Fiona Macdonald, Ana Catal\u00e0 &#038; Zuri Obi<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QNlNYU7lxNg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Hotel in Beira, Mozambique has had an extraordinary life: opened in 1954, it was a luxury destination with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and cinema. Closed in 1963 and taken over for political purposes during the country&#8217;s war of independence, it now houses a few thousand squatters \u2013 some of whom are the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}