{"id":191,"date":"2006-10-18T09:18:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T09:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=191"},"modified":"2006-10-18T09:18:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T09:18:28","slug":"mike-burch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/mike-burch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Burch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Brother Iran<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20061018-mike.jpg' width='104' height='120' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nBrother Iran, I feel your pain.<\/p>\n<p>I feel it as when the Turk fled Spain.<br \/>\n<!--more-->As the Jew fled, too, that constricting span,<\/p>\n<p>I feel your pain, Brother Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Brother Iran, I know you are noble!<\/p>\n<p>I too fear Hiroshima and Chernobyl.<\/p>\n<p>But though my heart shudders, I have a plan,<\/p>\n<p>and I know you are noble, Brother Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Brother Iran, I salute your Poets!<\/p>\n<p>your Mathematicians!, all your great Wits!<\/p>\n<p>O, come join the earth\u2019s great Caravan.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll include your Poets, Brother Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Brother Iran, I love your Verse!<\/p>\n<p>Come take my hand now, let\u2019s rehearse<\/p>\n<p>the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.<\/p>\n<p>For I love your Verse, Brother Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Bother Iran, civilization\u2019s Flower!<\/p>\n<p>How high flew your spires in man\u2019s early hours!<\/p>\n<p>Let us build them yet higher, for that\u2019s my plan,<\/p>\n<p>civilization\u2019s first flower, Brother Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\nMike Burch<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Iran Brother Iran, I feel your pain. I feel it as when the Turk fled Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}