{"id":1199,"date":"2013-01-04T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2013-01-04T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:53:09","slug":"extraordinary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several times, while in the apartment, I have discerned a raucous sound teasing itself from the ordinary street noises. \u00a0It rises in volume and takes shape: a chant. \u00a0The four-part cadence gradually blocks out the ubiquitous rickshaw, bus, and motorcycle engine whinings, putt-puttings and clunkings. \u00a0Now in front of the apartment building, protester voices demand: &#8220;We want justice!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The gang rape of December 16th, and the subsequent death of the brave young woman who briefly survived such heineousness, have thrust the country into outrage, frustration, and fear. \u00a0It is an extraordinary time of promises and blame, of demands for change and fear of status quo. \u00a0As politicians jockey to optimize this rare moment to their gain, the women of India quake. \u00a0And GTP has seen an astronomical increase in interest in our work. \u00a0How to feel about this? \u00a0How to think about this? \u00a0My personal thought is that I want to be put out of the self defense business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several times, while in the apartment, I have discerned a raucous sound teasing itself from the ordinary street noises. \u00a0It rises in volume and takes shape: a chant. \u00a0The four-part cadence gradually blocks out the ubiquitous rickshaw, bus, and motorcycle engine whinings, putt-puttings and clunkings. \u00a0Now in front of the apartment building, protester voices demand: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}