{"id":32704,"date":"2013-08-12T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=32704"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:58","slug":"hey-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/08\/hey-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey man!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire doesn\u2019t burn if it\u2019s turned into ashes<br \/>\nTake a look at yourself, unfaithful!<br \/>\nYou\u2019re a horse with a broken leg<br \/>\nWhy run?<br \/>\nWhy race?<br \/>\nEscape man!<br \/>\nThis is the eastern Berlin Wall<br \/>\nyou stop, you die<br \/>\nyou run, you die<\/p>\n<p>Hey! I\u2019m talking to you!<br \/>\nLook!<br \/>\nThe city lights are out<br \/>\nThe mice and dogs and horses are all asleep<br \/>\nand no pig wanders in this cold<br \/>\nYou warm up your hands, yet you\u2019re cold<br \/>\nYou feel your feet, yet you\u2019re paralyzed<br \/>\nYour eyes are right there, yet you can\u2019t see<br \/>\nYou\u2019re dead, man!<br \/>\nNo, wait!<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t even have it in you to die<br \/>\nNow if you would, or could<br \/>\nGet tired!<\/p>\n<p>This is the woods of Vietnam<br \/>\nyou stop, you die<br \/>\nyou run, you die<br \/>\nyou turn around, you die<\/p>\n<p>Your body is a sieve<br \/>\nyet, no blood is seeping through to be proud of<br \/>\nYour head is cut by quiver<br \/>\nYet, there is no fellow soldier to vouch for you [having fought]<\/p>\n<p>Now if you would,<br \/>\nor could,<br \/>\nProve yourself to be a man<\/p>\n<p>Hey man!<br \/>\nThis is Halabche<br \/>\nyou stop, you die<br \/>\nyou run, you die<br \/>\nyou turn around, you die<br \/>\nyou sleep, you die.<br \/>\n___________________________<\/p>\n<p><i>Mahdi Jalili<\/i><i>, PhD in <\/i><i>mass media and communication studies, journalist.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by: Nasim Banaei, <\/i><i>MA in mass media and communication studies, and a member of T:AP network (Transcend: Art and Peace)<\/i>.<i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire doesn\u2019t burn if it\u2019s turned into ashes<br \/>\nTake a look at yourself, unfaithful!<br \/>\nYou\u2019re a horse with a broken leg<br \/>\nWhy run?<br \/>\nWhy race?<\/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-32704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32704","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=32704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}