{"id":11690,"date":"2010-11-17T20:24:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T03:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11690"},"modified":"2010-11-17T20:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T03:24:44","slug":"persian-arts-festivals-shab-e-sher-written-up-on-america-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11690","title":{"rendered":"Persian Arts Festival&#039;s Shab-e She&#039;r Written Up on America.gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.america.gov\/st\/peopleplace-english\/2010\/November\/20101117153730ffej0.3112146.html?CP.rss=true\">In a New York Bar, a Place for New Persian Poetry<\/a>. Jeff Baron does a good job overall, though I think he makes me sound dismissive and trivializing about the traditional Shab-e She&#8217;r in the way that he quoted me in the first paragraph. I was also pleased to see the related articles that came up on the site; it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.america.gov\">American.gov<\/a> is doing a decent job of not demonizing Iran or Iranians. Actually, now that I think of it, I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t be snarky about it: It looks like they are doing a good job of humanizing Iran and Iranians, which is a pleasant change of pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out:\u00a0In a New York Bar, a Place for New Persian Poetry. Jeff Baron does a good job overall, though I think he makes me sound dismissive and trivializing about the traditional Shab-e She&#8217;r in the way that he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}