{"id":44578,"date":"2014-07-14T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=44578"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:41","slug":"fake-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/07\/fake-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mine was the fakest identity of all<br \/>\nWith its ink dried up<br \/>\nAnd its paper rotten from the dawn of humanity<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nI was beheaded in Africa<br \/>\nMy corpse was set on fire in Vietnam<br \/>\nAnd I was left in pieces in Palestine<br \/>\nI arose from rape by the Serbs<br \/>\nWho sought revenge against the Ottomans<br \/>\nIn Muslim women<br \/>\nI was the Jewish virgin whose 15<sup>th<\/sup> birthday<br \/>\nTurned to ashes in Auschwitz<br \/>\nI was the outburst of that teenager on horseback<br \/>\nRunning away from his American Indian legacy<br \/>\nI was the Armenian starving<br \/>\nOn the way from Poland to Iran<br \/>\nMine was the fakest identity of all<br \/>\nWhenoverwhelmed at Iraq-Syria border<br \/>\nI became a Takfiri Muslim<br \/>\nAnd when I self-immolated in Tibet<br \/>\nAs an offering to Buddha\u2019s peace<br \/>\nI was the sad eternity of mankind<br \/>\nSearching forever amid fear and chaos<br \/>\nFor love<br \/>\nFor a peaceful home\u2026<br \/>\nAlas<br \/>\nMine was the fakest identity of all<br \/>\n_________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Mahdi Jalili<\/em><em> holds a Ph.D. in mass media and communication studies and is a journalist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by Nasim Banaei, MA in mass media and communication studies and a member of\u00a0<em>T:AP <\/em>&#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tapnetwork.org\/\" >TRANSCEND: Art &amp; Peace Network<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was beheaded in Africa<br \/>\nMy corpse was set on fire in Vietnam<br \/>\nAnd I was left in pieces in Palestine<\/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-44578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44578","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=44578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}