{"id":14302,"date":"2013-06-17T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T01:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/?p=14302"},"modified":"2013-06-17T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T01:22:31","slug":"standing-man-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2013\/06\/standing-man-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Man Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone see the extraordinary &#8220;standing man&#8221; protest in Istanbul last night? I guess we are all used to seeing huge shouting crowds fighting with the Police, teargas, water cannon etc etc. <\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s also something very powerful about these stationary, silent protesters in Taksim Square. Needless to say, some were arrested, but it&#8217;s very difficult to see what offence is standing quietly in a public place.<br \/>\n&#8211;Bat Country<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/18\/turkey-standing-man-protest-erdem-gunduz_n_3458390.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/998599_10151626285738190_685567744_n.jpg\" alt=\"standing man protests Istanbul\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 43 of Tao Te Ching<br \/>\nWritten by Lao-tzu<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom a translation by S. Mitchell<\/p>\n<p><em>The gentlest thing in the world<br \/>\novercomes the hardest thing in the world.<br \/>\nThat which has no substance<br \/>\nenters where there is no space.<br \/>\nThis shows the value of non-action.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching without words,<br \/>\nperforming without actions:<br \/>\nthat is the Master&#8217;s way.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone see the extraordinary &#8220;standing man&#8221; protest in Istanbul last night? I guess we are all used to seeing huge shouting crowds fighting with the Police, teargas, water cannon etc etc. But there&#8217;s also something very powerful about these stationary, silent protesters in Taksim Square. Needless to say, some were arrested, but it&#8217;s very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}