{"id":13690,"date":"2014-09-03T14:11:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T18:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2014-09-03T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T18:11:18","slug":"an-old-man-and-a-young-man-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/09\/an-old-man-and-a-young-man-in-gaza.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;An Old Man and a Young Man in Gaza&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brutality of the Israelis in its savage response to Hamas rocket attacks has been documented in photographs so horrendous I can&#8217;t bear to look at them. Listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpfa.org\/archive\/id\/105609\">&#8220;An Old Man and a Young Man in Gaza&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; as read by Alan Cox in a recent radio broadcast on the KPFA program <em>Cover to Cover with Jack Foley<\/em> &#8212; had me feeling no less shamed but more bitterly enlightened. The poem, by Heathcote Williams, ends with these lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpfa.org\/archive\/id\/105609\">Israel&#8217;s vision of itself was once\u2028<br \/>\nAs a \u2018light unto the nations.\u2019\u2028<br \/>\nIt has no need of the fearful hatred,<br \/>\nFueling its bombs and its bullets,\u2028<br \/>\nUnless it wishes to fade away &#8212; \u2028<br \/>\nPutting out the light that might enable it\u2028<br \/>\nTo see the stranger as a friend.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brutality of the Israelis in its savage response to Hamas rocket attacks has been documented in photographs so horrendous I can&#8217;t bear to look at them. Listening to &#8220;An Old Man and a Young Man in Gaza&#8221; &#8212; as read by Alan Cox in a recent radio broadcast on the KPFA program Cover to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-literature","7":"category-political-culture","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-3yO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13698,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions\/13698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}