{"id":2228,"date":"2013-02-10T20:52:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2015-08-31T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T20:54:33","slug":"lit-candles-dont-commemorate-a-self-immolator-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lit-candles-dont-commemorate-a-self-immolator-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Lit Candles Don&#8217;t Commemorate A Self Immolator Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2164\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2164 \" title=\"Jan Palach - Political protester\" alt=\"Political protester student drew straws, and got the short one. Burned himself to death in protest at Warsaw Pact occupation of Prague. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jan_Palach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Jan-Palach-Self-immolated-in-protest-at-Warsaw-Pact-invasion-of-Prague.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"183\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Political protester student drew straws, and got the short one. Burned himself to death in protest at Warsaw Pact occupation of Prague. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jan_Palach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Inappropriate, the guide girl said<br \/>\nIs the offering in memory made<br \/>\nOf one man who was not afraid<br \/>\nTo show his dissent<\/p>\n<p>He and freinds for freedoms cause<br \/>\nWent to protest, and drew straws<br \/>\nHis the shortest, to applause<br \/>\nTo his destiny, he went.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to imagine, here these days<br \/>\nDoused in petrol, set himself ablaze<br \/>\nNow at the spon, one stops and prays<br \/>\nAt this life, not in vain, spent.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers, at this spot state<br \/>\nThat this student did demonstrate<br \/>\nThe power of protest, and of faith<br \/>\nIn a land of discontent.<\/p>\n<p>A lit candle, the guide girl thought<br \/>\nIs inappropriate, instead there be aught<br \/>\nSomething different, to commemorate he who fought<br \/>\nFor freedom, with anger pent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inappropriate, the guide girl said Is the offering in memory made Of one man who was not afraid To show his dissent He and freinds for freedoms cause Went to protest, and drew straws His the shortest, to applause To his destiny, he went. Hard to imagine, here these days &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[462,130,1],"tags":[2381,1828,818,464,2382],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-from-prague","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-jan-palach","tag-poems-from-prague","tag-politics-2","tag-prague","tag-prague-spring","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-zW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":286,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/arched-ceilings-of-the-pinkas-synagogue\/","url_meta":{"origin":2228,"position":0},"title":"Arched Ceilings of the Pinkas Synagogue","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th May 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\",\"Arched Ceilings of the Pinkas Synagogue\",\"Pragues picturesque Pinkas Synagogue in the Josefov district is now a museum to the fallen from the Shoah \/ Holocaust, to the Jewish vistims of the Nazi genocide in World War 2. 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