{"id":1621,"date":"2007-12-10T01:02:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/12\/your_pen_vs_their_sword\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T01:02:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T09:02:03","slug":"your_pen_vs_their_sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/12\/your_pen_vs_their_sword.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Pen vs. Their Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this video doesn&#8217;t illustrate the power of a signature, nothing does:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OjC_k1B0Xdg&#038;rel=1&#038;border=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><br \/>\nToday, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2007\/12\/sds_tom_hayden.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>noted<\/strong><\/font><\/a> last week, is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_Rights_Day\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Human Rights Day<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and the culmination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/Individuals_at_Risk\/Global_Writeathon\/page.do?id=1108452&#038;n1=3&#038;n2=34&#038;n3=65\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Amnesty International&#8217;s Global Write-a-Thon<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, an annual letter-writing campaign to help &#8220;human rights defenders, prisoners of conscience, and other victims of human rights abuses.&#8221; Does letter writing work? Amnesty International says, &#8220;It absolutely does.&#8221; See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/Global_Writeathon\/Amnesty_Internationals_Global_Writeathon_2007_Questions_and_Answers\/page.do?id=1351009&#038;n1=3&#038;n2=34&#038;n3=65\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Q&#038;A<\/strong><\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this video doesn&#8217;t illustrate the power of a signature, nothing does: Today, as Human Rights Day and the culmination of Q&#038;A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-q9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","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=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}