{"id":1144,"date":"2008-01-29T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/i-stand-with-imprisoned-iranianian-students\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T22:43:06","slug":"i-stand-with-imprisoned-iranianian-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"I stand with imprisoned Iranianian students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kamangir.net\/2008\/01\/28\/january-30th-solidarity-of-bloggers-with-the-imprisoned-iranian-students\/\">Kamangir the Archer<\/a> translated a Persian-language blog which asks all bloggers to announce their solidarity with the imprisoned Iranian students on January 30th. I proudly stand with these students and everyone worldwide imprisoned unjustly.<\/p>\n<p>When I was about the same age as many of these students, I was imprisoned, unjustly, in a foreign prison for a brief period. I was stuffed in a small cell in the basement of a cinderblock prison with a concrete floor in solitary confinement. My bed was a newspaper, my toilet was a milk carton that I emptied every other day. I got one cold shower every week. For breakfast we got warm brown water they called coffee and a roll, lunch was watery soup and bread and for supper, we were fed noodles with warm ketchup &#8211; they called it spaghetti. If we weren&#8217;t on our feet when the guards came through in the morning, we got a beating. In fact, there were more ways to get a beating than there were ways to avoid a beating.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that kept me going was knowing my government would get me out &#8211; which they did eventually. I can&#8217;t imagine the psychological pressure these students endure knowing that their government is the entity that has imprisoned them. That their release depends on the whims of a sociopath.<\/p>\n<p>This blog stands with prisoners of conscience in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, China, North Korea and wherever else governments persecute their people. 365 days every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamangir the Archer translated a Persian-language blog which asks all bloggers to announce their solidarity with &hellip; <a title=\"I stand with imprisoned Iranianian students\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1144\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I stand with imprisoned Iranianian students<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}