{"id":98,"date":"2012-03-08T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=98"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:51:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:51:37","slug":"to-mark-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/to-mark-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"To Mark International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You will remain an example<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will walk with all walking people<br \/>\nAnd no<br \/>\nI will not stand still<br \/>\nJust to watch the passers by<br \/>\nThis is my Homeland<br \/>\nIn which<br \/>\nI have<br \/>\nA palm tree<br \/>\nA drop in a cloud<br \/>\nAnd a grave to protect me<\/p>\n<p>This is more beautiful<br \/>\nThan all cities of fog<br \/>\nAnd cities which<br \/>\nDo not recognise me<br \/>\nMy master:<br \/>\nI would like to have power<br \/>\nEven for one day<br \/>\nTo build the &#8220;republic of feelings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Translated by Ghias al-Jundi)<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Tal al-Mallouhi <\/strong>is a young poet who was only 19 years old when she was arrested in her home city of Homs more than two years ago, in December 2009. She was sentenced to five years in prison in February 2011, convicted of spying for a foreign country. She is still in prison, with little access to her family \u2013 a situation aggravated by the recent conflict. For more on her case read this PEN alert. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishpen.org\/syria-blogger-and-poet-sentenced\/\">http:\/\/www.englishpen.org\/syria-blogger-and-poet-sentenced\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will remain an example I will walk with all walking people And no I will not stand still Just to watch the passers by This is my Homeland In which I have A palm tree A drop in a cloud And a grave to protect me This is more beautiful Than all cities of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23887,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/23887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}