{"id":208,"date":"2005-07-30T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=208"},"modified":"2005-07-30T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T21:27:41","slug":"a-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/a-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"a weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The New Arabic Poetic Verse movement started in Baghdad in 1948,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Frangieh. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poets began talking about social and national themes. Poetry contributed a great deal to the independence of Arab states between the two World Wars, just as it helped spread a new consciousness in the late nineteenth century in the effort to get rid of the Ottoman Empire. In the battle of social and political change, poetry is a weapon.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bassam Frangieh, professor of Arabic at Yale University<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/news\/humanities\/2002-01\/poets.html\">Of Poets, Prophets, and Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The New Arabic Poetic Verse movement started in Baghdad in 1948,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Frangieh. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poets began talking about social and national themes. Poetry contributed a great deal to the independence of Arab states between the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}