{"id":125,"date":"2012-12-10T04:41:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T04:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2014-08-10T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T04:45:10","slug":"haikus-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/haikus-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Haikus for Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"540\" height=\"315\" classid=\"\" codebase=\"\" 560=\"\" 315=\"\" clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000=\"\" http:=\"\" download=\"\" macromedia=\"\" com=\"\" pub=\"\" shockwave=\"\" cabs=\"\" flash=\"\" swflash=\"\" cab=\"\" version=\"6,0,40,0&quot;&quot;\"><param name=\"\"allowFullScreen\"\" value=\"\"true\"\" \/><param name=\"\"allowscriptaccess\"\" value=\"\"always\"\" \/><param name=\"\"src\"\" value=\"\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BGEQrdAG9Kk&amp;autoplay=0\"\" \/><param name=\"\"allowfullscreen\"\" value=\"\"true\"\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Haikus for the Iran protesters, forgotton in the West, that now has little to gain from the risks that they took.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haikus for the Iran protesters, forgotton in the West, that now has little to gain from the risks that they took.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[217,53,101,6],"tags":[2349,218,219,220],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cause-for-pause","category-civil-rights","category-iran","category-video-poetry","tag-iran","tag-neda-soltani","tag-protests","tag-tehran","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-21","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":790,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/she-is-remembered-still-though-most-forget-her-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":0},"title":"She Is Remembered Still, Though Most Forget Her Name &#8211; \u0646\u062f\u0627 \u0622\u0642\u0627 \u0633","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"22nd January 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aXSkrD-cZUA She was shot on a streetcorner, gaining fame for all the wrong reasons. 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