{"id":250118,"date":"2023-12-11T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=250118"},"modified":"2023-12-09T07:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T07:24:57","slug":"if-i-must-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/12\/if-i-must-die\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Must Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Refaat-Alareer2.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-250121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Refaat-Alareer2-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Refaat-Alareer2-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Refaat-Alareer2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Refaat-Alareer2.jpeg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****************************<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If I must die,<br \/>\nyou must live<br \/>\nto tell my story<br \/>\nto sell my things<br \/>\nto buy a piece of cloth<br \/>\nand some strings,<br \/>\n(make it white with a long tail)<br \/>\nso that a child, somewhere in Gaza<br \/>\nwhile looking heaven in the eye<br \/>\nawaiting his dad who left in a blaze\u2014<br \/>\nand bid no one farewell<br \/>\nnot even to his flesh<br \/>\nnot even to himself\u2014<br \/>\nsees the kite, my kite you made, flying up<br \/>\nabove<br \/>\nand thinks for a moment an angel is there<br \/>\nbringing back love<br \/>\nIf I must die<br \/>\nlet it bring hope<br \/>\nlet it be a tale<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Refaat-Alareer.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-250120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Refaat-Alareer.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a>Refaat Alareer (23 Sep 1979 &#8211; 7 Dec 2023) was a Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist from the Gaza Strip killed by the Israeli invading army. He taught literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza and co-founded the organization <\/em>We Are Not Numbers<em>, which matched experienced authors with young writers in Gaza. RIP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I must die,<br \/>\nyou must live<br \/>\nto tell my story<br \/>\nto sell my things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":250121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1199,87,865,88,715,427,868],"class_list":["post-250118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250118","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=250118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250122,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250118\/revisions\/250122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}