{"id":14751,"date":"2022-07-28T07:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/vigil\/"},"modified":"2022-07-28T07:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:49:13","slug":"vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/vigil\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1180\" height=\"585\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14749\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e78c46e17fcaf25ae5e3fd895121344b.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e78c46e17fcaf25ae5e3fd895121344b.jpg 1180w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e78c46e17fcaf25ae5e3fd895121344b-600x297.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e78c46e17fcaf25ae5e3fd895121344b-300x149.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e78c46e17fcaf25ae5e3fd895121344b-441x219.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e78c46e17fcaf25ae5e3fd895121344b-768x381.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e78c46e17fcaf25ae5e3fd895121344b-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e78c46e17fcaf25ae5e3fd895121344b-10x5.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vigil<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Lya Vollering<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When we heard in 2021 about the plans of this government to turn the notorious youth prison in Medomsley, Co. Durham (1800 young men, between 17 and 21 years old, were abused there) into a detention centre for women seeking asylum, we went to have a look. We walked around the whole site, and what struck me is that the high walls around it which prevent the women from seeing where they are.<\/p>\n<p>Walls,<br \/>so you cannot see,<br \/>sister<br \/>where you are.<br \/>Walls<br \/>so we cannot see you,<br \/>sister.<br \/>What you not see<br \/>is not there?<br \/>Are you there,<br \/>sister?<br \/>Do you hear us?<br \/>Do you hear our silence,<br \/>sister?<br \/>We reach through walls.<br \/>We walk seven times<br \/>around them.<br \/>So that they<br \/>may fall.<\/p>\n<p>And we will meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vigil by Lya Vollering When we heard in 2021 about the plans of this government to turn the notorious youth prison in Medomsley, Co. Durham (1800 young&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":14749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14751","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\/14751","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\/637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}