{"id":257826,"date":"2007-11-15T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/11\/15\/pen-day-of-the-imprisoned-writer\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:10","slug":"pen-day-of-the-imprisoned-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/11\/15\/pen-day-of-the-imprisoned-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN Day of the Imprisoned Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is PEN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/penamerica.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/day-of-imprisoned-writer.html\">Day of the Imprisoned Writer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On November 15 each year International <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> stages the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/1686\/prmID\/172\">Day of the Imprisoned Writer<\/a>. <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> members do what they can to &#8220;raise public awareness of the plight of their colleagues worldwide,&#8221; writing protest appeals, staging events, and calling attention to imprisoned writers around the globe. Five writers in particular are selected &#8220;to represent the global spread of the problems as well as to illustrate the types of attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This year, the five writers are: Zargana (Myanmar\/Burma), Normando Hern\u00e1ndez Gonz\u00e1lez (Cuba), Fatou Jaw Manneh (Gambia), Yaghoub Yadali (Iran), and Dzamshid Karimov (Uzbekistan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is PEN&#8217;s Day of the Imprisoned Writer. On November 15 each year International PEN stages the Day of the Imprisoned Writer. PEN members do what they can to &#8220;raise public awareness of the plight of their colleagues worldwide,&#8221; writing protest appeals, staging events, and calling attention to imprisoned writers around the globe. Five writers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[8096,3556,2136,8076,8086,8106,8056,8066],"class_list":["post-257826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-burma","tag-cuba","tag-ejvl","tag-gambia","tag-iran","tag-myanmar","tag-pen","tag-uzbekistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361036,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257826\/revisions\/361036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}