{"id":7295,"date":"2011-03-14T16:40:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2017-12-01T01:34:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T20:34:47","slug":"the-call-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/the-call-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The call continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7299\" title=\"Neda_Agha_Soltan_the_call\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Neda_Agha_Soltan_the_call.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Tehran, Iran<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Leave the Basiji bullet in my heart,<br \/>\nfall to prayer in my blood,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">and hush, father<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">\u2014I am not dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">More light than mass,<br \/>\nI flood through you,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">breathe with your eyes,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">stand in your shoes, on the rooftops,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">in the streets, march with you<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">in the cities and villages of our country<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">shouting through you, with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">I am Neda\u2014thunder on your tongue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u2014poem by Sholeh Wolpe<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>On 20 June 2009, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan\" target=\"_blank\">Neda Agha Soltan<\/a>, a 26-year-old Iranian woman and a student of philosophy who was attending a demonstration in Tehran protesting the vote-count fraud was shot in the heart by a Basiji hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. In the jittery cell phone video of a bystander who captured her murder, we hear her father wailing her name, begging her to stay, not to leave\u2026 as blood gushes from her chest and streams out of her mouth.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>The name Neda in Persian means \u201cThe call.\u201d And the call continues\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, Iran Leave the Basiji bullet in my heart, fall to prayer in my blood, and hush, father \u2014I am not dead. More light than mass, I flood through you, breathe with your eyes, stand in your shoes, on the rooftops, in the streets, march with you in the cities and villages of our country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15655,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions\/15655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}