{"id":5335,"date":"2018-12-10T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2018-12-10T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:34:46","slug":"silence-is-still-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/10\/silence-is-still-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence is still Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5308\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5308\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-6-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"Silence is still Violence\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-6-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-6.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silence is still Violence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speak, for your lips are free;<br \/>\nSpeak, your tongue is still yours,<br \/>\nYour upright body is yours&#8211;<br \/>\nSpeak, your life is still yours.<br \/>\nSee how in the blacksmith&#8217;s shop<br \/>\nThe flames are hot, the iron is red,<br \/>\nMouths of locks have begun to open,<br \/>\nEach chain&#8217;s embrace has spread wide.<br \/>\nSpeak, this little time is plenty<br \/>\nBefore the death of body and tongue:<br \/>\nSpeak, for truth is still alive&#8211;<br \/>\nSpeak, say whatever is to be said.<br \/>\n&#8211;Faiz Ahmed Faiz, translated by V.G. Kiernan (Poem was recited by the Indian actress &amp; activist Shabana Azmi at the UN in 2009, regarding the treatment of women in Afghanistan.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speak, for your lips are free; Speak, your tongue is still yours, Your upright body is yours&#8211; Speak, your life is still yours. See how in the blacksmith&#8217;s shop The flames are hot, the iron is red, Mouths of locks have begun to open, Each chain&#8217;s embrace has spread wide. Speak, this little time is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/10\/silence-is-still-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silence is still Violence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}