{"id":24361,"date":"2012-12-31T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=24361"},"modified":"2012-12-31T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T12:13:10","slug":"in-further-memory-of-edward-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/12\/in-further-memory-of-edward-said\/","title":{"rendered":"In Further Memory of Edward Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always, always<\/p>\n<p>That voice<br \/>\nremains<br \/>\nis gone<br \/>\nneeded<\/p>\n<p>What he gave<br \/>\nwe miss<br \/>\nwe need<br \/>\nwe want<\/p>\n<p>Our loss<br \/>\nhis loss<br \/>\nremains<br \/>\nan echo<\/p>\n<p>Sunsets bright<br \/>\nthat shine<br \/>\nyet soon<br \/>\ndepart<\/p>\n<p>Unlike waves<br \/>\nthat beat<br \/>\non shore<br \/>\nremains<\/p>\n<p>Relentless<br \/>\nis loss<br \/>\nhis gift<br \/>\nour hope<\/p>\n<p>Remembering<br \/>\nour loss<br \/>\nour tears<br \/>\nhis hopes<\/p>\n<p>Honor such a loss<br \/>\nclear eyes<br \/>\nbrave words<br \/>\ncourage<\/p>\n<p><em>XII..27\u20262012<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n__________________________<\/p>\n<p><i>Richard Falk is a member of the TRANSCEND Network, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, author, co-author or editor of 40 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.<em> He is currently serving his fourth year of a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights.<\/em> Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies, and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. <\/i><i>His most recent book is <\/i>Achieving Human Rights<i> (2009).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always, always<\/p>\n<p>That voice<br \/>\nremains<br \/>\nis gone<br \/>\nneeded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}