{"id":316695,"date":"2017-07-10T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/quiet-dissent\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T20:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:38:58","slug":"quiet-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/quiet-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"quiet dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-69634\">\n<p class=\"subhead\">for Deborah, my flowergirl<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">by Paul Cech \/ July 9th, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>she snuck off at seventeen to experience woodstock\u2019s<br \/>second day<\/p>\n<p>she protested at the pentagon<br \/>she cared for the poor<br \/>the downtrodden<br \/>the priviledged<\/p>\n<p>the concept of equality took form through her actions<\/p>\n<p>she felt deeply<br \/>she thought deeply<br \/>she loved and cared deeply<\/p>\n<p>she was a quiet voice of dissent<br \/>who loved people and life \u201cto bits\u201d<\/p>\n<p>she inspired her family<br \/>her students<br \/>her friends and strangers<\/p>\n<p>she left us with the possibility<br \/>that there will be others<br \/>who will pick-up where she had to let go<br \/>others who will thunder the voice<br \/>and actions of quiet dissent<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Paul Cech has been writing poetry since 1970. Several of his poems have been published as Saturday Poems in the Pittsburgh- Post Gazette and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh has published several of his poems in NewPeople. <a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/author\/paulcech\/\">Read other articles by Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">This article was posted on Sunday, July 9th, 2017 at 8:03am and is filed under <a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/category\/poetry\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Poetry<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/07\/quiet-dissent\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for Deborah, my flowergirl by Paul Cech \/ July 9th, 2017 she snuck off at seventeen to experience woodstock\u2019ssecond day she protested at the pentagonshe cared for the poorthe downtroddenthe priviledged the concept of equality took form through her actions she felt deeplyshe thought deeplyshe loved and cared deeply she was a quiet voice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-316695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}