{"id":13771,"date":"2020-12-04T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/amnesia-of-the-asylum-seeker\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:35:37","slug":"amnesia-of-the-asylum-seeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/amnesia-of-the-asylum-seeker\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesia of the Asylum-seeker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-13768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/f5f09ca4483af6d82250f6e147b92681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/f5f09ca4483af6d82250f6e147b92681.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/f5f09ca4483af6d82250f6e147b92681-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/f5f09ca4483af6d82250f6e147b92681-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/f5f09ca4483af6d82250f6e147b92681-441x248.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/f5f09ca4483af6d82250f6e147b92681-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/f5f09ca4483af6d82250f6e147b92681-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/f5f09ca4483af6d82250f6e147b92681-10x6.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Amnesia of the Asylum-seeker<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Leah Fleetwood<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who we were back then, it\u2019s hard to recall:<br \/>lawyers, actors, fruit-sellers at a stall;<br \/>street-singers, clerics, or newssheet writers?<br \/>How were we seen \u2013 kowtowers or fighters?<br \/>Your need to process us is fair and no surprise \u2013 <br \/>to thresh the facts from what you think are lies.<br \/>But, officers, listen! The journey changed us all.<\/p>\n<p>Be not offended that your forms remain so blank.<br \/>Imagine, if you will, how such data &#8230; sank:<br \/>in tsunamis of grief and of mortar,<br \/>torture, erased ID, and salt water.<br \/>We come before you free of social mask.<br \/>A chance, a chance is all we ask:<br \/>to bring to light our talents \u2013 not our rank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesia of the Asylum-seeker by Leah Fleetwood Who we were back then, it\u2019s hard to recall:lawyers, actors, fruit-sellers at a stall;street-singers, clerics, or newssheet writers?How were we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":13768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}