{"id":51343,"date":"2016-07-16T01:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T01:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51343"},"modified":"2016-07-16T01:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T01:48:39","slug":"turkey-and-tienanmen-a-double-tanks-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51343","title":{"rendered":"Turkey and Tienanmen, a Double Tanks Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; the power of images in which overwhelming humanity is juxtaposed with overwhelming force ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>The image of <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51236\"><strong>Ieshia Evans<\/strong> standing truth to power<\/a> became an instant icon last week, as did an earlier photo of a man facing down a line of tanks at Tienanmen Square. Now, that photo of individual courage in the face of a tank has a cousin from Turkey, and <strong>Kenneth Roth<\/strong> has paired the two of them in what I term a <strong>DoubleQuote in the Wild<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Turkey&#39;s tank man. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cCwnxyoCZj\">pic.twitter.com\/cCwnxyoCZj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenRoth\/status\/754119652284985344\">July 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serenity in the eye of a camera has many battalions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; the power of images in which overwhelming humanity is juxtaposed with overwhelming force ] . The image of Ieshia Evans standing truth to power became an instant icon last week, as did an earlier photo of a man facing down a line of tanks at Tienanmen Square. Now, that photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,526,144,645,1391,627,778,429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-charles-cameron","category-china","category-counterpoint","category-coup","category-doublequotes","category-photography","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51344,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51343\/revisions\/51344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}