{"id":1022,"date":"2014-11-01T17:36:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2014-11-01T19:44:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:44:35","slug":"a-maud-gonne-of-the-kurds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-maud-gonne-of-the-kurds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Maud Gonne of the Kurds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bmfUBJn7F8g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Kurds fight to free Korbani I post this old poem of mine in tribute to the Peshmerga and their women fighters! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/maud-gonne-yeats-inspiration\/\">Maud Gonne<\/a> was an Irish revolutionary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Kurds fight to free Korbani I post this old poem of mine in tribute to the Peshmerga and their women fighters! Maud Gonne was an Irish revolutionary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[702,1175,130,6,213],"tags":[1177,1183,1182,1174,2371,1176,1178],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-spring","category-kurdistan","category-politics","category-video-poetry","category-war","tag-islamic-state","tag-kobane","tag-kobani","tag-kurd","tag-kurdistan","tag-peshmerga","tag-women-kurdish-fighters","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-gu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1024,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/maud-gonne-yeats-inspiration\/","url_meta":{"origin":1022,"position":0},"title":"Maud Gonne: Yeats Inspiration","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st November 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DI7Si0cJVOc The second verse refers to the Lady of the Sweetest Smile, the authors own Maud Gonne, though not of the military kind, her spirit and ambition was Gonne-esque... 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