{"id":222,"date":"2006-11-15T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T08:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=222"},"modified":"2006-11-15T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T08:54:30","slug":"terrorist-by-mahnaz-badihian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/terrorist-by-mahnaz-badihian\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist- by: Mahnaz Badihian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Terrorist<\/b><br \/>\n( This poem was born after reading a captured suicide bomber&#8217;s interview )<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nYou have changed the smell of our land<br \/>\nThe color of our flowers<br \/>\nYou changed my name<br \/>\nMy new name is  terrorist<br \/>\n<!--more-->A name that does not buy me<br \/>\nA loaf of bread<br \/>\nAnd will never help me dream of<br \/>\nYour green land<br \/>\nI am a terrorist  whose scream has become<br \/>\nA gun in the throat of his hands <\/p>\n<p>You call me terrorizing<br \/>\nBecause of terrorizing nightmares<br \/>\nIn the night of struggle for<br \/>\nA piece of bread<\/p>\n<p>My wandering child<br \/>\nIn a dream for home<br \/>\nRuns to the length of dreams<br \/>\nAnd sleeps behind your bars<br \/>\nIn the ashes of his dreams<\/p>\n<p>I am the one who cried for<br \/>\nBroken wings of butterfly <br \/>\nYesterday <\/p>\n<p>I am a terrorist<br \/>\nThat the tears of moon light<br \/>\nPut out the flames of my heart<br \/>\nAnd the wounds in my heart<br \/>\nHave blocked my lungs <br \/>\nFrom breathing freedom<\/p>\n<p><b>And I am so dead<br \/>\nThat death is my only<br \/>\nMeans of staying alive<\/b><br \/>\nM.Badihian 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrorist ( This poem was born after reading a captured suicide bomber&#8217;s interview ) You have changed the smell of our land The color of our flowers You changed my name My new name is terrorist<\/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\/222"}],"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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}