{"id":37,"date":"2008-03-11T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T04:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-03-11T15:46:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T04:46:18","slug":"remembering-writers-week-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"remembering writers&#8217; week 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post from my 2006 Archives:<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px\"><strong>10\/03\/06: rob<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>&#8220;The final day of Writers&#8217; Week and in a wonderful moment of synchronicity I was able to introduce Juan Garrido-Salgado to Yahia al-Samawy- both poets who had been imprisoned and tortured for their political beliefs and writings. Juan introduced me to Tom Shapcott (who&#8217;s retired from teaching and now lives in Melbourne) and Geoff Goodfellow was wandering past so I introduced him to all! Later, under the shade of plane and palm trees on a beautiful hot Adelaide afternoon, Juan and Yahia told me the details of their torture in prison.. and I&#8217;ve never been so grateful to have led a mundane life..&#8221;<\/em><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px\">\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_Impressionism.JPG\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Impressionism\" class=\"pp_image\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_AutumnPears_Palms.JPG\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" alt=\"AutumnPears Palms\" class=\"pp_image\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_Garrido_Salgado_walker_al_Samawy_Shapcott_Goodfellow.JPG\" width=\"440\" height=\"261\" alt=\"Garrido Salgado walker al Samawy Shapcott Goodfellow\" class=\"pp_image\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_AlSamawy_Garrido_Salgado.JPG\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" alt=\"AlSamawy Garrido Salgado\" class=\"pp_image\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post from my 2006 Archives:10\/03\/06: rob:\u00a0&#8220;The final day of Writers&#8217; Week and in a wonderful moment of synchronicity I was able to introduce Juan Garrido-Salgado to Yahia al-Samawy- both poets who had been imprisoned and tortured for their political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=37\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,27,26,25],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adelaide-writers-week","tag-geoff-goodfellow","tag-juan-garrido-salgado","tag-yahia-al-samawy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}