{"id":533,"date":"2008-03-21T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2008-03-21T02:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T10:32:00","slug":"more-on-america-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/more-on-america-america\/","title":{"rendered":"More on America, America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/R-OTQFHsgVI\/AAAAAAAAAhg\/oKEymFpwgTw\/s1600-h\/DSC01706.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/R-OTQFHsgVI\/AAAAAAAAAhg\/oKEymFpwgTw\/s400\/DSC01706.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180145900867846482\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Painting by Nicole Peyrafitte, 2004.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since those days in early 2003 when we still had hopes to stop the Bush\/Cheney Dr. Strangelove-ian project of invading Iraq,  Sa&#8217;adi Youssef&#8217;s poem (see yesterday&#8217;s post) has often been the opener of my and Nicole Peyrafitte&#8217;s readings and performances.  Nicole reminded me last night, that we have an oral version of our performance of Sa&#8217;adi&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">America, America<\/span> up on the net, which you can access <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolepeyrafitte.com\/Sound%20files\/America%20America.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Nicole Peyrafitte, 2004. Since those days in early 2003 when we still had hopes to stop the Bush\/Cheney Dr. Strangelove-ian project of invading Iraq, Sa&#8217;adi Youssef&#8217;s poem (see yesterday&#8217;s post) has often&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}